My first job after high school was doing some tree-wrapping and noxious weed removal for an Alberta conservation non-profit, Basically, wading through the bush along the Bow River south of Calgary in one of the worst horse/deer fly seasons in Albertan history.
You learn really quickly that you need to wear tough canvas trousers and long sleeves in the bush, and something to cover your head, but for the first little while, I would just go out with bug spray in shorts and tee and was coming back covered in giant horsefly welts.
In addition to the pain, they also inject you with some kind of blood thinner, so the wounds take forever to close and would open up again really easily.
Goddam, they are the filthiest of creatures.
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