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Chupacabra
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Abreojos flies
I'm gonna head down to Abreojos soon, never been there but I understand the flies are pretty bad this time of year.
Question: are they biters, or just a nuisance? Anyone had luck with citronella candles or anything like that to keep them at bay a bit?
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I can promise you, if you use citronella candles NOT ONE FLY will land on a single candle, GUARANTEED.
If they're bobo's, the little no-see-um biters, clear vanilla works wonders, and not only won't burn your eyes, but makes you smell nice and taste
sweet to your honey. Any other kind of bug, just use orange-cap OFF spray, apply liberally and often. All the other stuff on the market is pretty
much the same mix for more pesos with more advertising.
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Last time I was there was in August a few years back. The entire ocean and beach was full of dead red jellyfish. After a few days of baking in the
sun, the flys were everywhere and the breeze burned your nostrils with the scent of rotting jellyfish. It was heavy! haha
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Chupacabra
I'm gonna head down to Abreojos soon, never been there but I understand the flies are pretty bad this time of year.
Question: are they biters, or just a nuisance? Anyone had luck with citronella candles or anything like that to keep them at bay a bit?
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Yes, yes and yes. If your camping we prefer a screen/shade room for eating and taking a break from the insect action. We have had good and bad bug
days along the Wild Coast.
Have fun and eat some oystiones for us 
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There is a restauranteur over here who uses a mix of 1/4 Listerine mint mouthwash to 3/4 water in a plastic garden sprayer around his restaurant, when
the flies get bad. I have been in there when he's done it and it does seem to send them packing.
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I've never seen flies so bad, and seems to get worse every time I go. A large screened tent/canopy or camper shell will work the best. Late
afternoon seems to be the worst time---get in the water or in the tent! I've only seen one natural control---in 1997, during the epic El Nino, there
was a bird that looked like a miniature duck only with a long sharp sandpiper type beak---he would walk up and down the beach eating flies all day
long. I have a feeling it was drawn there by the warm air/water from south somewhere, maybe mainland. Never seen one since but I wish they would do
some captive breeding and release a few hundred 
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never had an issue there. enjoy!!! try wiping lemongrass on your exposed tender bits.
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I down a couple of weeks ago, They are there, keeping you camp clean really helps. Wash out the beer bottles with seawater don't spill stuff if you do
shovel away from camp. I just get use to them too. They don't bit they are just everywhere. They seem to like to get out of the wind.
"Never teach a pig to sing it frustrates you and annoys the pig" - W.C.Fields
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Chupacabra
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Cool, thanks for the responses.
One more question: are the flies mostly an Abreojos thing, or are they everywhere along that stretch...what about Punta Prieta and Asuncion to the
north or at Campo Rene?
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There are less at those other places but they are there.
By the way the road from La bocana to Hipolito is not be graded took a couple of hours to do. You mileage may vary.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by MMc
I down a couple of weeks ago, They are there, keeping you camp clean really helps. Wash out the beer bottles with seawater don't spill stuff if you do
shovel away from camp. I just get use to them too. They don't bit they are just everywhere. They seem to like to get out of the wind.
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All of the above has been my experience at abreojos as well. They are not biting flies but a nuisance to some more than to others. If you are totally
grossed out by flies then you may be frustrated here.
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I didn't see any flies when I went to La Bocana and Asuncion 2 years ago. It's an Abre thing. Although, during that trip, the fly situation was
mellow in Abre as well. We bought some special fly killer thing from Home Depot but never ended up using it. You add H2) to it and it stinks and
attacks the flies away from you, supposedly.
Here's the report:
http://forums.bajanomad.com/viewthread.php?tid=61836&pag...
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The flies are a part of the deal at Abre. I use swatters with both hands and thinking about using my size 13 feet/toes for a another line of attack!
Bueno Suerte..Juanito
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In the 90's we went down just about every year and camped on the bluff. The first year the flies were a downer. The second year my buddy Jimbo - RIP -
brought down a small quiet generator, 200 feet of extension cord and an industrial type fan. We rigged the fan so it hung horizontal from an ez-up and
set the generator way off from camp and fired the thing off and 4-5 people could sit under the fan and no flies. One afternoon the vigilantes did a
drive by, stopped and looked shook there heads and gave us a 'loco gringo' look. We waved them over and offered up a seat and a cold adult beverage.
They seemed to like the deal. Over the next week it seemed that half the town came out and checked out the setup. The next year we had 300 feet of
extension cord and a slightly bigger fan.
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sick shot gato.
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Take a few fly swatters with you. I swatted them as we drove, waved the swatter out the window at folks sitting on their front porches who were waving
them back at me. Friendly place, but not towards flies.
I'll share a little secret with you, when you take your siesta, prop the swatter up in your arm pit. The flies see it looming over you and are scared
sh*tless. They will give you a wide berth as you snooze.
My baja dad Herman used to siesta with his flyswatter too, (on the chair to his right) but never believed me enough to try the arm pit trick.
Can't have enough swatters. I got a new electric racket zapper that I'm dying to test out this summer. I will not be siesta-ing with the zapper in my
armpit, fyi.
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that is HI-larious.....
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Great surf shot! Definitely going to try a big fan.
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lavendar scented cleaning.... "stuff",diluted with water...seems to work as well
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