Biting Houseflies?

Flies are at their peak right now. I'm in the back yard working on a project and feel a sting at my ankle. I look down and there's what appears to be an ordinary house fly biting me through the sock. I have this thing where I clap my hands about 6" over the resting fly, gets 'em every time, squashed that sucker and still appears to be a regular house fly.

Additional and probably irrelevant weirdness, they appear only to land and bite through the socks, gray or white Dickies brand, they don't land on open skin.

No apparent sting redness or swelling, just a sharp sting like a hornet getting warmed up, goes away in a few minutes.

I know what horse flies and deer flies look like, these appear to be ordinary house flies. Has anyone heard of such a thing? I've lived in Oregon, Cali, and Idaho, near decades in each, this is the first season of my (way too long) life I've seen biting house flies.

Personally I think it's gub'ment nano drones.

 

Them lil green ones are fuckers

 

Look up "Stable Fly". Probably what you are seeing.

 

Post of the Day right there…

 

I've seen the green ones too (and did some searching around before this post) These are ordinary looking house flies, not horse flies (I've been stung by them,) stable fies or deer flies. The kind with the shiny green spectrum bodies, sometimes just black. We've lived here 6 years and they weren't here last year, and local development is driving all the farms further away, not closer.

Weird.

 

It's still early, give it a few more hours

 

They sting my Dog on her Butthole… she hates them

 

And just how do you know . . . uhh, NVM, TMI LOL

 

Was mowing a field and felt something itching my ankle.
Looked down and was a big horse fly biting through my sock.
Smashed that sucker.
left a bite mark that itched for a while.
Never been bit through the sock before.
Damn sock flies.

 

There’s a lot of them down here…you’ll see her drop down and start licking her rear when they get her…then she just sits there and snaps at them when they come back…she catches a few

 

This is her…the way she looks after she gets stung..

 

Stable fly looks almost exactly like common house fly.

Stable fly - Wikipedia

 

Stable fly, Stomoxys calcitrans.

 

I have been bitten by house flies a few times and yes, it hurts.

 

House flies cannot bite.

 

We got them little black skeeters. Man one tore me up last night. I woke up at 3am bit up and pissed!

 

Not possible, physiology of a proboscis, right? I was trying to figure out why, after my whole life in 4 states, all of a sudden I'm encountering flies that bite. There's nothing fostering Stable Fly habitat in this suburban neighborhood. I thought.

Mystery may be solved. Neighbor got chickens this year. The first years we were here another neighbor had chickens, didn't experience biting flies those years but will guess that's it.

I leave you with a gift from my grandson, wife thought I'd hate it, best summer entertainment ever. I'm on the third year, same set of batteries, the smell of burning fly flesh in the afternoon smells like . . . victory.

 

Correct, house flies have sponging mouthparts. They can only take in liquids or minute particles they sponge up from the surface of their food.