Also new and interesting mosquito species, like the tiger mosquito, are now becoming endemic even north of the alps.
Got bitten mid February already 🫠
Yall need to go to India. Just got back with dozens of bites after wearing long sleeve and sweatpants the whole time. Every day is a constant battle against 30-50 mosquitoes.
I went to a party near a lake and saw something that shook me to my core. Swarms of hundreds of mosquitoes just flying around as tho they were gnats. I don’t care about the eco web or whatever, scientists need to just delete these guys from existence
Your comment was “Yall need to go to India” followed by five sentences listing reasons why we very much shouldn’t go to India
Vitamin B-12 tablets will help there. I grew up in a highly tick, flea, chigger, and mosquito infested area. My parents shoved B-12 tablets down our throats as soon as it started to get warm every year. We almost never go bitten, as long as we kept taking the daily tablet.
You’ll sweat it out, and B-12 is the smell you have associated with fresh baked bread. The tablets smell like a commercial bakery. Sweating it out gives your skin a slight bitter oder, and masks the smell of your blood.
Every time someone describes that kinda thing I get a sudden urge to get one of those electric tennis racquet things and carry it with me 24/7 in case I come across a swarm like that
To be fair, this is basically most of northern Canada in May/June as well. Also add black flies to the mix, which take small, anesthetized chunks out of you to make you bleed so that they can lick the blood off your skin… sometimes in clouds so thick, you have no choice but to just let it happen.
Wtf… I have had a horsefly bite before which I think is similar and that shit actually hurts. I would take mosquitoes over that any day…
Horseflies are big and they hurt! Black flies are small and completely silent and hurt only afterwards. They also keep bleeding and bleeding… No bueno.
Caught a couple flying around in the house throughout the winter myself. I don’t think I got bit but thought it was ridiculous that they were still around.
Edit: Not since the new year though thankfully
Do you have a fireplace or wood burning stove? Mosquitos hide dormant in dead wood over the winter, so it’s not uncommon to bring in some logs from outside and have the mosquitos inside wake up, thinking it’s spring in your nice warm house.
I learned this when I was getting bites inside my own house with sub-freezing temperatures outside.
