Massive fly

[miker]

Didnt manage to get a picture , huge fly , easily 1 inch long landed on my wall, triangular in shape at rest, ive never seen anything like it before, it was massive, anyone else seen any

[Mick Dempsey]

Like this? 

[miker]

no , all black, possibly mottling on wings, ive just looked up a tiger bee fly, could be one of them

[Paul in the woods]

I suspect it's a Tabanus sudeticus also known as the dark giant horsefly, if you google it there's plenty of pictures. I've seen a few around this year, often hear them first.

[miker]

1 hour ago, Paul in the woods said:

I suspect it's a Tabanus sudeticus also known as the dark giant horsefly, if you google it there's plenty of pictures. I've seen a few around this year, often hear them first.

much darker and bigger than that mate, reckon it was 3/4 of an inch wide with wings shut, !!

[Joe Newton]

Cockchafer?

[Mark Bolam]

Aye, that needs a massive fly.

[miker]

19 minutes ago, Joe Newton said:

Cockchafer?

not cockchafer, get loads of them here, they are brown and hiss at you, this bastard was black and would have nearly covered a 50p coin

[Graham w]

32 minutes ago, miker said:

not cockchafer, get loads of them here, they are brown and hiss at you, this bastard was black and would have nearly covered a 50p coin

Sounds like good eating 

catch it 

kill it 

cook it!

[Ty Korrigan]

Out here I often get hit by the 'Taon' or the giant horse fly. Painfull bite, spot of blood, swelling, itching for a week after.

Then there is the Flower bug, something I only noticed last year. Again a painfull bite, itching and slow to heal.

 Ty