Mosquitos bad this year ?

[Mark J]

Cleggs up here. Ballsy things.

 

[Billhook]

I was shown around Waddesdon Gardens, near Aylesbury, Bucks a few weeks ago and the mossies came out of the yew hedges and we were bitten to near death.  Went out into the meadows to try and avoid them and were still bitten.  Had to leave which was a shame as I really wanted to see the rest of the gardens.

[gobbypunk]

I was watching a program about Bats dieing out en masse and then I was thinking we used to get bats in our garden etc but notso much this year and guess what bats eat loads of mozzies maybe a connection

[Timbermcpherson]

Not quite the same mostquito but this one turned up earlier in the year.  My FIL knew the guy and used to chat to him about his acquisitions. 

 

 

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Edited November 18, 2020 by Timbermcpherson

[Khriss]

Sadly tho. Mosquitoes were wooden aircraft so out there the borers would have had their way  ? K

[Khriss]

( two matched running RR Merlins worth a fortune now) 

[Timbermcpherson]

22 hours ago, Khriss said:

Sadly tho. Mosquitoes were wooden aircraft so out there the borers would have had their way  ? K

As much as it may not look like it, John Smith, LOVED those birds and took good care of them for as long as he could. He was offered crazy money for them time and time again. But he would not part with them. I would think the condition would be better than it may appear. And he was an orchardist, killing wood boring bugs was in his DNA

 

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Edited November 19, 2020 by Timbermcpherson

[openspaceman]

24 minutes ago, Timbermcpherson said:

As much as it may not look like it, John Smith, LOVED those birds and took good care of them for as long as he could. He was offered crazy money for them time and time again. But he would not part with them. I would think the condition would be better than it may appear. And he was an orchardist, killing wood boring bugs was in his DNA

My dad implied it was bugs eating the glue that was the problem rather than boring insects so they changed it to a non casein based glue. I never did find reference to this when I searched for details of their use in Burma.

[Timbermcpherson]

I read there were issues with them being used in the humidity of asia, the glues just didnt hold up, not sure if it was insect related

[Khriss]

Least you will have a bloody good pattern  to work from and the engines and carriage should be restorable, all the tinware will have lasted well in Australia. K