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Horse-Flyes or Tabanos will form an annoying aerial escort on some parts of the trail. They are abundant in December and January in humid parts of the River- and Lake District. These rather noisy flyers get attracted by dark moving objects in bright sunlight. So avoid dark cloth and do not try to chase them off with rapid movements, otherwise your will attract the attention of more of them. They inflict painful bites but do not leave an itching stitch.
===Spine and Bur-Bearing Plants===
Along the entire trail you will encounter again and again anoying [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cenchrus Cenchrus ] plants with spine-covered seeds, that use bypassing animals to spread their seeds (and now also hikers).Common names include buffelgrass, sandburs and sand spur.When the seeds of these leg-high plants ripen then the very sharp spines harden and the seed easily detaches from the stem.
To The ripe seeds stick to most fabrics and can penetrate deep into the skin therefore be issuedvery careful when removing these thorny tiny balls from your cloth with your fingers. You can minimize "your collection" by wearing trousers made of a hard dense fabric. I had several times a not visible broken off spin in a fingertip that resulted in a small wound that did not heal for days until I removed the spine by cutting into the skin and removing the remaining spine tip manually.  Other less bothersome but still anoying plants have bur-bearing seeds that stick to soft cloth like fleece but do not penetrate into the skin.
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