Somewhat random question: is anyone else seeing crazy amounts of flies outside? Is it possibly related to the EHD outbreak (large number of carcasses leading to large amounts of flies)? I am in Athens County. We have two disposable bag fly traps on our back deck and in about 4 days they are nearly FULL of flies already. I've never seen the amount of flies outdoors that I'm seeing right now.
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I dont know about you, but this happens at my house every time this year. We get a cool off and when it warms back up we get them all over the siding of the house
This is our first year at this house, but the last house was only about 8-9 miles away so it's not like a really new area. We had one random year at the last house that was similar to this. Now I wish I could remember if it was a bad EHD year.
Just like the midge, this summer was perfect storm for all flies.
Don't even talk about the stinkbugs 
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With having livestock, I'm pretty in tune with the bugs and can tell you we've never seen the # of flies in our barn/coops like we did this year. It was wild how bad they were in the barn peak EHD outbreak. The cool mornings we had a few weeks ago seemed to help, in addition to catching a few thousand!
By far the least amount of deer or horse flys and mosquitoes I've seen in my life. House flys seemed normal until they awoke again this past weekend.
I saw a post about a fly strike in Morgan County on a young calf last week. Sad stuff. Honestly, I'd never heard of that until this year, but have heard of it twice now.
I've only heard about it out west but it's the 1st time I've seen it here and to see both those cases caught me off guard. The one calf I think died and the other had very little hide left on it's back end up to the middle of it's back. All that damage was said to have come from about an 8hr span of time. Pretty crazy so see. By the next day that calf would've been dead for sure.
I googled fly strike since I didn't know what it was...now I'm wishing I still didn't. 
Our fly bag traps were basically full in 4 days (2 bags on our deck). I tossed them and bought a reusable/refillable trap from Rescue. It's already catching them in large numbers in the first 24 hours.
Our fly bag traps were basically full in 4 days (2 bags on our deck). I tossed them and bought a reusable/refillable trap from Rescue. It's already catching them in large numbers in the first 24 hours.