Disney Spraying Daily

[SimbaKY]

I just called the Fort and asked them about precautions being taken regarding the Deer Flies/Yellow Flies.

The CM I spoke with recognised that the yellow flies are particularly bad this year, but said that the grounds were being sprayed everyday. We are encouraged to bring our own defenses - as long as there isn't a open flame...

From what I have read in PPs the deer flies seem to be laughing at this spray!

 

[campingcorgi]

Man those things are nasty. We always keep long pants and shirts in the rv for deer fly season. They are really bad up here in the (currently) oil-free panhandle/Pensacola area this year, too.

 

[AuburnJen92]

According to my husband who is there, they are laughing, loudly.

 

[I'mDownWithDisney]

I saw a group of dirty hippy yellow flies following the sprayer and taking hits off of it. Later on I saw the same ones in a bongo circle.

 

[Tnbob]

I have posted this before but for the benifit of those who didn't see it or never experienced the little buggers I will again. My DW (Mrs.tnbob or Kathy if you have met her) is alergic to those dang things. We had no problem last yr as we were into June before we got down there but the two yrs prior she got bit big time. Once we just got out of the truck at the site and she got hit, her foot swelled like a balloon and then her arm, both had open blisters that made her miserable for the whole stay. The next yr she got hit again and we had to go to the walk in clinic for antibiotics. The doc there said they were busy with people who got bit by the little buggers and were alergic. It took several weeks for it to get better and she still has scars from it. DW just looked them up and it says the are active in May and June and sometimes into July, she's a little nervous about going in July this year, I guess I can't blame her.
Dang Hippies

 

[Mary2e]

I was just about to post about these nasty buggers.

We were in a cabin from for memorial day weekend and didn't have a clue about them. I immediately acquired a "pet" and thought nothing of it until I was stung. Then the cable repair guy came by and said "oh, that's a yellow fly" and didn't tell me just how nasty they are.

After a day, I suddenly started itching and thought it was a mosquito bite. The next day I was at the pool and again, the flies were around me, and I finally jumped into the pool to get rid of them. Ditto the day after.

It wasn't until the day we were to come home I realized how many bites I had, but still, they didn't itch too badly. Until I got home, and then they started up in full force.

I've been home since Wed night, and have more than a dozen of these bites, and can honestly say I have never experienced itching like I did. The earlier bites are clearing, but the more recent ones still itch, and my legs look diseased. I'm apparently allergic to the bites, but not as bad as the poster above mentioned. Still, the welts are very large, and they did open up an ooze a bit. Neosporin is helping, as they don't seem quite as red today.

Disney could have warned us about the problem this year. They did have a note in the cabin about the black bear siting - it wouldn't have been a terrible thing to warn people to get indoors if they're being attacked by those nasty flies.

I can say that I will probably never go to WDW in May again - or if I do, stay away from the Fort.

I wish I had seen this post before I left.