Strange small insect recently appeared in Tasmania

[cazzamazza80]

Hi

I was bitten by this thing, rather small, very strange looking, had a microdot of blood on my leg (tiny puncture) and then I went and did my washing and there was the same thing, but drowned, got as many pictures as I could, have never seen these in my area ever before, could someone please enlighten me? I have also noticed the insects in my area have become evil horrid creatures, midgeys attacking and strange oblong midgeys I never saw until recently, this has been the angriest year for small parasitic insects, I’m tired of being bitten, and I can see them fly away, almost like they know I’m going to kill them, anyway here is the weird thing that sucked a tiny pore of blood out of me, it has what looks like a little suction snout, I just don’t understand what the yellow lump is on its side, (they were both identical) or why it has little horns and 6-8 legs, I’m confuzzled. Feel free to correct me or jump in. Located far south of Tasmania. Thanks in advance

[bichos]

Will you post pictures?
Its probably a Hippoboscid fly
Alternatively
Look up march flies

[Adam Cotton]

Please see my post (4th down) about posting photos to the forum in the Technical Issues section:

insectnet.proboards.com/thread/4692/picture-attachment

Note that uploading photos directly to the forum is not possible.

Adam.