Mosquitos and other biting pests

dieseldave:
Agreed!!

Scottish midges are to be avoided.

Added to my country list of biting/stinging mossie things (I didn’t ask them for their Latin names :laughing: ) are mossie ‘things’ that you’d find in Sweden at certain times of the year. Is there any such thing as a Swedish midge?

Sweden has vast acreages of standing water. :open_mouth:

Yes, standing water, perfect for them, bad news for us.

Apparently Sweden has 47 species of mosquito, 45 of which bite, but they don’t cause malaria, so just an annoyance really. The Swedes call their mossies “mygg”, which sounds a lot like midge, confusingly.

Sweden has midge too apparently, which they call ‘knott’, though they are lightweights compared the scottish midge and generally found in the north west of the country only.

A friend of mine at Uni did his PhD all about midge (chironomids). For studying their flight he had to rent a special camera from Kodak to be able to film the wingbeats, which average 800 per second :open_mouth: