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Attack of the Tavanos

Attack of the Tavanos
Driving from Entre Lagos toward the nearby national park, we pause to take a picture of the lake, and get brutally assaulted by a tavano. This is a humungous biting fly — up to an inch in size — that buzzes around, dive bombing people, and sounds like an entire bee hive. They're all over the place here, and they're viciously relentless: the one that found me here literally followed me as I ran down the street to get away from it for at least 50 yards. When I finally reached the car, I sat there squealing like Ned Flanders, refusing to get out. (In my defense, I thought it was a whole hive of bees at the time.)

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