Oh! I forgot the deer flies.
Yeah , wear a hat!!! I put a little bug spray on mine now and then , but a hat saves getting bit where heat rises off a head.
They like the black on the mirror backs , and vehicle heat.
I drive a slalom course down the dirt road , alternately hitting the mirrors on leafy branches on the way home.
Then stop out by the road and whop away at the deer flies around the mirror on my side with my hat.
If I don't they'll be up where I park. And show up out back with the dogs.
On the way out to the main road I encourage hitch hikers.
Some can hang on at 50 m.p.h. still out there. Fine with me. They're goin for a ride!