North Conway Travel Forum

What time of year do the black flies arrive in North Conway? If they have already arrived, how bad are they?

May-June is usually the worst of it but they are around all summer. I was in North Conway 2 weeks ago and was also near the NH-Maine border last weekend was surprised to find the bugs weren't too bad this year - at least so far. I've heard this may be due to the warm weather we had this past December which may have caused the generation that was due to hatch this spring to hatch in Dec. instead. When it got suddenly cold again many of the annoying little critters may have died off before they were able to reproduce. That's the theory anyway. Regardless, you will need bug spray. It's just that they are tolerable rather than completely maddening so far this year.