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Having grown up in the southern swamps of Florida. I don't mind mosquitoes too much. If I get bit, it itches for a second and then goes away. Now the sand flies
by pelagic_sky 3y ago
Having grown up in the southern swamps of Florida. I don't mind mosquitoes too much. If I get bit, it itches for a second and then goes away. Now the sand flies of New Zealand...those bastards can go straight to hell. One of those bites me and I have a welt for a couple weeks.
- cycomanic 3y agoI find that mosquitos from different regions affect me quite differently. So for example NZ and AUS mosquitos barely register while German ones itch quit a lot. Fully agreed on the sandflies. They actually relate to the topic at hand. Sandflies don't stop sucking unless shooed away. A couple of years ago we were talking to an older couple who lived in fjordland. They had moved away when their first kid was born, because the baby could not chase the sandflies away, so was tormented by sandflies which would sit on it and suck until exploded.
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- inglor_cz 3y agoCentral European mosquitos are nasty. I hate every single bite.
- thaumasiotes 3y ago> Sandflies don't stop sucking unless shooed away. Shooed away? Wouldn't you swat them?
- jacquesm 3y agoCanadian blackflies will happily tear out off a chunk of meat. Or at least, that's what it feels like.
- morkalork 3y agoBlackflies will take little bites, its the deer/horse flies that take chunks. One time while camping far away from modern civilization, on a lake engulfed in the absolute silence of nothingness nearby, I swear I could hear the teeny tiny crunch of one taking a bite out of my thigh, cellulite and all.
- jacquesm 3y agoAh so I must have mistaken the species. I've had a good chunk bitten out of my lower leg where the shinbone sits right below the skin and it took forever to heal. The locals jokingly called them the Canadian Airforce.
- xattt 3y agoHorseflies seem to dig in when your skin is wet (and I assume more supple). This experience has made me more aware of the insects around me if I am swimming at a beach.
- optimalsolver 3y agoThere are some beagles who can attest to how terrible sand flies are: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10125599/Fauci-fire-puppy-experiments-utilized-disease-causing-parasites.html https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10125599/Fauci-fire...
- Hammershaft 3y agoThe article spends over a dozen paragraphs rehashing that these beagles suffered but never explained what the purpose of the experiments were.