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Packing Advise-Black Items
Read many posts about avoiding black colored items in East Africa as they attract flies. Trying to understand severity. One of my Christmas gifts was a small sling day pack/water bottle carrier which I asked for specifically in Khaki. Realized when I received it, that the netting to hold the bottle is black. Am I going to be a fly magnet with this? Thanks for any insight.
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You’ll be fine.
It will be fine. The key thing is it is not clothing. The tsetse flies bite you through clothing or not.. I was bitten through a black band on my socks and it hurt. And they can carry sleeping sickness. You can never tell whether there will be any tsetse flies, sometimes I haven’t seen a single one, one time there were quite a few.