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People can suffer numerous bites without their knowledge, so keep as much skin covered as possible.
Long pants and a long-sleeved shirt are recommended. By summer, blackflies have all but disappeared, but mosquitoes and deerflies are gathering. The latter can be a particular enemy in Maine, swarming about the head and giving a large, painful bite on the neck. Some anglers use deerfly strips, sticky rectangles of paper that attach to the back of your hat. Deerflies land and are trapped.