Maine Black Fly Report

Tuesday, May 13, 2003
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It's easy to participate.  E-mail a short message. Please include: 

    Day, date. Location and Maine Atlas map number. Black fly severity (on a scale of 1 to 3:
    1=none or few; 2=some, but tolerable; 3=many, a royal pain). Your initials.      

    Example:   Sunday, May 27.  Orono (Map 23) Black fly level = 2.  F.W.

E-mail your weekly "black fly reports" to the Editor, Frank Wihbey: menature@maine.edu
The reports will be compiled as colored dots on a map of the state, generally each Tuesday evening.

This week's black fly report in map form

Note: this is a spatial display of the correspondents' weekly black fly reports, so that we all might see trends, and also use the information to optimize our outdoors experience.