I would say no. I have had plenty of run ins with horse flies and they have only ever managed to bite me where my skin has been expossed.
The answer, as I learned yesterday, is yes. I was riding my horse and felt a burning sensation on my leg. I looked down, and there was a horse fly that had bitten right through my riding pants. I bled so much that the blood actually came through my pants as well. My suggestion is use ALOT of bug spray if you know you'll encounter them.
You will know that a fly has been annoying a horse if you see him scratching himself. Buy a bottle of fly spray or put on a fly rug and that should sort em out!
Very, although they don't seem to bite humans all that often.
A horse fly bite looks like a large raised reddish bruise. or a small tomato without the green bit on top
Horse flies do. Nasty little boogers they are!
Swollen, red, welp like area on the skin. May or may not itch.
it is just like a mosguito bite. its no big deal. oh and i do not know how to spell that ^ actually i think it hurts a heck of a lot more than a mosquito bite it stings more
The same fly if allowed will bite numerous times. If I see one of these on one of my horses I do my best to kill it. Then I will spray some extra fly spray on the horse in case the fly brought friends. I have been bitten by horseflies several times and they are painful. Almost like a bee sting, so I do what I can to prevent them.
Horses don't get fleas. Horse FLY? Big itchy painful bump, like a mosquito bite x 20.
Some people don't think there is a difference between a fly and mosquito, but there is. There are such things as a House fly and a Horse fly. The House fly is usually what you would see flying around the house or some where close to food. The Horse fly and Mosquito are the some what similar though. Mosquito's bite you because they feed on blood from humans and other mammals. A Horse fly bites you for about the same reason but are faster at biting you than a mosquito.
A horse fly
it might be a rash if it spreds. or it might be a horse fly bite.
Yes, a horse fly is a real fly.