So just had a battle with a super awesome fly (I opened the door and showed it the exit first) vs. me with the old “Executioner” battery fly bat… this was a super hyper fly with some good technique and, before I killed it, thought was fat, on closer inspection was super muscly and hairy! AND WAS CARRYING 3 TICK-THINGS!
(I thought it may be carrying a control-chip at first)
I am a friend of bees and assorted things, and first noticed these TICK-THINGS on a bumble bee that was in trouble years ago, that I made up a syrup for, and finger fed with it, which was cute to see it’s proboscis going…. Early in the year, no flowers, it was out early… and then I noticed those TICK-THINGS (varoa mites?) on it so spent some time trying to remove them with tweezers as you can imagine the bee was not happy about it and flew off… then on some small flies I swatted noticed even smaller bug things crawl off them, then on this fly just spotted 3 fat ones after I swatted it.
Seems a problem anyway.
