Mosquitos bad this year ?

[Jack.P]

Anyone else noticed these more  recently whilst on a job ?

Down south they are not usually a problem but have gone for me a lot today .they only seem to come out from about 2:30  then all go on a mass feeding frenzy. 

[Rough Hewn]

Yeah been a wet year.
Nasty buggers.
[emoji106]

[trigger_andy]

Up where I live we've had lock-down from 16:00 to 23:00 because of the miggies for years now.  

[donnk]

i really like how the English have trained those crap mozzies to stay north of hadrians.

[Stubby]

2 minutes ago, donnk said:

i really like how the English have trained those crap mozzies to stay north of hadrians.

We are still working on getting the ones from the malaria belt to migrate up there ?

[donnk]

i do believe they were wiped out after tackling blokes in frocks sweaty knackers.

[openspaceman]

17 minutes ago, donnk said:

i really like how the English have trained those crap mozzies to stay north of hadrians.

I don't remember mosquitos being a problem when I have been in Scotland during the summer but midges were something else.

 

Gnats/Mosquitos were not as bad this year as others where I am, not sure why because warm and wet should favour them, of course there is a general fall in insects.

 

Ticks seemed very much on the increase.

[Stubby]

Just now, openspaceman said:

I don't remember mosquitos being a problem when I have been in Scotland during the summer but midges were something else.

 

Gnats/Mosquitos were not as bad this year as others where I am, not sure why because warm and wet should favour them, of course there is a general fall in insects.

 

Ticks seemed very much on the increase.

Down here ( West Sussex )  warm and wet = horse flies . they are total cnuts .

[openspaceman]

2 minutes ago, Stubby said:

Down here ( West Sussex )  warm and wet = horse flies . they are total cnuts .

Yeah, Clegs, Stouts what do you know them by?

 

Whereas a gnat sticks a needle in you the clegs seem to take a chunk out. I think midges are more like minature clegs.

[peatff]

25 minutes ago, openspaceman said:

Yeah, Clegs, Stouts what do you know them by?

 

Round here they are Oss flies  Nasty things, one poisoned my thumb a few years back and it's only just recovered.