Sandy Neck Greenheads Bite Tank

If you know... you know.

Nothing ruins a beach day like a greenhead. They may be the worst of all creatures on the planet.

This lightweight ringer tank features our vintage-inspired "GREENHEADS BITE." design, with a detailed greenhead fly illustration on the front and the Sandy Neck Provisions lighthouse logo on the back neck.

Details

• Ultra-soft cotton/poly blend
• Classic unisex fit
• Contrast ringer trim
• Color: Charcoal
• Sizes: Small through 2XL
• Front "Greenheads Bite." graphic; lighthouse logo at the back neck
• Designed on Cape Cod

What is a greenhead fly?

The salt marsh greenhead (Tabanus nigrovittatus) is a biting horse fly that breeds in the coastal salt marshes of the eastern United States. Its range runs the length of the Atlantic seaboard — the Jersey Shore, Long Island, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Cape Cod and the Islands, the North Shore, New Hampshire, and the Maine coast. If your beach has a marsh behind it, you have greenheads.

• Season: late June through September, peaking in the last two weeks of July and the first week of August.
• Time of day: they hunt in daylight, and are most active from roughly 10am until dusk.
• Only the females bite. They need a blood meal to produce eggs, so after mating they leave the marsh and head inland looking for one. That one is usually you.
• Why they're relentless: they range a long way from where they hatched, they attack persistently, and they do not take a hint.

There is no negotiating with a greenhead. You can cover up, you can get in the water, you can wait for the wind to shift — or you can wear the shirt and commiserate with everyone else on the beach.

Warning: Wearing this tank may cause complete strangers to tell you their worst greenhead story.