LONG BEACH TOWNSHIP — If you’ve been on a beach at the Jersey Shore, particularly on a day with a west wind, chances are you’ve had an unpleasant encounter with a bloodthirsty pest: the greenhead fly.
One thing about greenhead flies: They bite. Hard. Folks familiar with the flies love to tell how, unlike mosquitos, which use their pointy proboscis to penetrate the skin to sip blood, greenheads just ...