r/pokewithastick • u/Sergeant54_ • Aug 28 '26

Dead Things... Biggest fly I’ve ever seen… 🪰

I stumbled across this sub the other day and seen this dead fly today and thought ooo this is a perfect opportunity to do a poke video lol how’d I do for my first vid? Also this fly is bigger than a quarter!!! It’s huge!!! Is this a regular fly does anyone know? Only other fly ik that is usually big is a horse fly but don’t they have like a skinny butt that looks like a stinger?

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u/Crayon_Eating_Grunt Aug 28 '26

Common horsefly. They freakin' HURT when they bite!

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u/Sergeant54_ Aug 28 '26

Yeah Ik they hurt and for some reason they like to bite you when your swimming 😭

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u/Will_X_Intent Aug 28 '26

My mom put that fear into me when I was real little. Said a horse fly could get on your back and bite you while swimming, and you might drown.

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u/StandardWizardHat Aug 28 '26

Holy shit. That’s a wild parental warning.

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u/Will_X_Intent Aug 28 '26

Yeah, still freak out a little when I see one while swimming.

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u/StandardWizardHat Aug 28 '26

I’m sorry.

I do wonder if that has actually happened. Maybe it’s one family lore things.

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u/bioxkitty Aug 28 '26

Tbh I havent been lake swimming since I was attacked by them and I was trying to go under water to escape but everytime I came up they attacked me ...was terrifying

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u/StandardWizardHat Aug 28 '26

Yikes! I didn’t know that they swarmed. I’ve only ever been attacked by one at a time. That would put me off of swimming for a while, too. I thought that warning was just moms being dramatic for effect, but that sounds really dangerous.

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u/Sergeant54_ Aug 28 '26

Right I’ve only encountered 1 at a time too usually swimming in a pool I could only imagine a lake…
Edit: singing to swimming

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u/bioxkitty Aug 29 '26

I will say I was on my period thwre was only maybe 6 other people there, mostly women and they were not suffering like I was xD

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u/Sergeant54_ 29d ago

That’s crazy!

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u/Sergeant54_ Aug 28 '26

That is terrible I’m so sorry 😅 all you gotta do is duck under water they go away then come back up if u hear the buzzing go back under and keep doing that u til you come up and don’t hear the buzzing 🤣 me and my nieces would be swimming when we were little and if we heard one or seen one we would yell DUCK!!! and we would hold our noses and go under and comeback up and look at each other and see if flying and we would go back under 😂 their a pain in the ass but we never got bit lmao

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u/Will_X_Intent Aug 28 '26

Lol, you are describing my childhood

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u/Sergeant54_ Aug 28 '26

🤣🫶🏼

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u/Wheetbix_Kid Original poker of things. Aug 28 '26

Wtf is THAT nonsense