I am the strange one. My fears would be from the bottom to the top.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.Agree; generally bottom up. But I don't really fear them - I anticipate they will happen and I try to prepare.
David_ver_3
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Apr 29, 2020
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I'm now in North Florida.
Never before heard of yellow flies, the scourge of May and June, but a threat all summer long.
Mosquitos? Alligators? Snakes?
Ha!
PALMETTO BUGS? What?!?
No. Sorry. Come up to my neck of the woods in about four months.
Bring your head/shoulders netting, your (light-colored) long sleeve shirts and pants, your DEET spray...better yet, stay in the AC, check your screens, and when you HAVE to go outside, RUN! not walk, to the car.
Those pretty little nasties want a "blood meal," and you're on the menu!
Storm1752
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Feb 12, 2020
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Yellow flies? Never heard of them.
@EyesThatSmile They're very pretty, which belies their evil, vampire-like, vicious, bloodsucking intent!
I see the list of fears in the original post and then read your list - makes me feel so so so grateful! I have only been here for two years, but my area outside Newberry has no open water so I have almost no mosquitoes and no alligators, no biting flies, no palmetto bugs, no fleas, no ticks, no poison ivy, and no pricker bushes. Thankfully, no neighbors either. I walk several times a day barefoot & naked into my woods with nothing to bother me except an occasional spider web. My house is shaded so I almost never need A/C. I guess I'm missing the true Florida experience. Woe is me. 
@David_ver_3 I built a huge screened-in porch, and just recently built a pond which I'm now in the process of enclosing, so I'll have roughly 1800 square feet of insect-free space. It's necessary because I'm in the deep woods. A lot of the neighbors clear their land of trees/brush/ vegetation and have huge lawns, but I want it woody.
I love Newberry. I would've bought in Alachua County but too expensive!
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