These little bastard harassed me through a whole hiking trip. Never thought something could make me actually appreciate mosquitoes. Great video.

Those flies will make you loose your mind, and question everything! Thanks for the tips.

This works folks!! It makes mowing the lawn tolerable. We use a type of fly paper on the back of straw hats but same principle. They go to the highest point first and are DONE! We don't go outside without our hats on in fly season.

Thanks for the video! I've never had tanglefoot run off the helmet, but I've only tanglefoot that was clear with a brush or with the spray can. Perhaps they have modified their formula, or only a thin layer is needed. As for the blue, I can't say they are [more] attracted to it, I have used white helmets (currently do) with good success in FL. In my experience, the most important thing is the contrast to the surroundings. I could say they aren't actually attracted to the color at all, but rather just end up landing on the surface after being expending energy buzzing around your movement/CO2. (mostly movement). They (the females) are ambush predators, where they sit still on a tree (usually upside down) constantly scanning for movement/contrast change. Once they attack, they'll stay with you for a good while aggressively trying to find a spot to bite. There is some reason why they don't simply land straight to the helmet, but rather buzz about it, as though bedazzled or intruiged, and eventually land to investigate. I have also noticed that they always tend to fly "up". In that, if they land on a scarf, or hunting buff, they will always fly back up, and continue swarming before usually just landing on the helmet. They don't really craw about on your skin. If they don't get a "hit" on the land, they fly "up" and pursue/circle before landing again. I use the helmet and scarf with a butt-dyno effectiveness of keeping 90% of potential bites from happening combined with a 90% chance of catching the fly on top. Have caught 30-40 in one day, and they seem to go down in the same area after that. I use the concept of kill/catch as many as you can using yourself as bait, to minimize next year's offspring. It seems to be working thus far.

Your a GENIUS!! I don’t even have this issue yet and I’m glad I ran across this video thanks thumbs up!!👍🏽 🎉

I USE CLEAR TANGLEFOOT..ALSO I HANG BLUE SOLO BOWLS UPSIDE DOWN WITH STRING AND HANG FROM TREES...WELL DONE..

They just moved into hwere i live in the last 2 years. Never heard of or dealt with a deer fly prior. We just had horseflies. Deerflues are like horseflis on steroids. As soon as they land, the bite. Horseflies take a couple seconds first.

If the devil is the Lord of the Flies, I thought I was on his hit list. I didn't know what or why I was being attacked like this until I found your video. First time encountering these pests.

Neat! When I try it I will try a wire brush for the texture first.

Thank you! Great idea

What about a stand that waves in the wind - maybe shaped like a person - and painted blue and covered with that goop - would that work to keep the little vampires off your property?

WIthout my glasses that looked like Kill Dear Flies Without Loading Shells. HA!

Deer flys seem to attack back of arms and finger tips…what to do…?

Have you ever encountered the greenhead fly from New England salt water marshes? Makes deer flies seem like tiny gnats.

Great video, thanks. I HATE deer flies. They lit my world up at the creek a few years ago. About 25 bites or so.

Thats nice man! really clean looking helmet! Way better than the other stuff I have seen

We have tree-based glue like that and the best stuff to remove it is actually vegetable oil, like sunflower oil.

I just watched a video on the sky used the heavy duty blue nitrate gloves he hung two or three on a string hung them up about 4 to 5 feet from the ground and he caught a gazelle and he used that that sticky fly stuff that you use there and he caught 1 million of them on his traps so you might want to try that too

I don't understand why they would go after blue. Deer are mostly brown and they seem to love the color of skin.

Unbelievable the trouble we have to go through to deal with these SOB's! They can definitely ruin your day. FYI, my Aussie neighbor turned us on to tea tree oil to help with these and horse flies. It works. I put a few dabs on my collar, a few on the bill of my hat, and front and back of my shirt and it actually keeps them away...until you sweat through it, of course.

We have the yellow variety here in Florida. Despise the pests. Dragonflies get most of them though.

How do you use the citrus spray? Spray it on and then ? Do you wash it off, wipe it off etc? Thanks

Brilliant!

Very inventive!!!

Ok but how do you clean it for reuse?

Horseflies teleport

I’ve read they target black, not sure how it would compare to blue....

Another thing they seem to love is my wife's skin when she's trying to swim in the pool.

Wonder if it works on the front porch when yer mother in-law comes to visit……🤔😳😳

window fly traps, just stick them to your helmet

They are the bugs from hell !

I'm more of a tin foil hat guy then a helmet dude, I guess I can put that on it too

Is it bad if you get bit by a deer fly?