Biting insects

[jtbo]

So what kind are most common at your area right now and how much there are them?

Here I'm having huge amount of these bitches, only females suck blood, nature seem to work same for those as for humans, instead human females have mutated and are able to suck your money as painful rate and as often as horse-flies bite:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horse-fly

So right when I step outside there are at least one circling around, most of time when I'm outside there are 3-4 with at least one of those largest type. at the moment there is +25C outside and there is no hope leaving any piece of skin visible if going outside, not even face or fingers, using thick gloves is a must as otherwise there are more than 5 new bites each day, now with thick gloves, overcoat, two shirts, hat with screen/net etc I get only 5 bites a day to whole body, oh the joy.

Can't use flamethrower, too dry here.

This summer those have been rather persistent and great in numbers, not so much other types, except during evening hours when mosquitos are arriving as their sensors are blocked by heat during the day, middle of night there can be as something like 50-100 around you, so again same kind of protection needed, but those are not problem during the day.

Ankles are bit problem to protect so I made lamellar armour from sheets of plastic and some string to cover my ankles from being bitten, quite extreme, imo. Totally during the day I get 10 new itching bite spot, starts to be kind of annoying.

Beginning of summer there bitches were common http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_fly, there were constantly around in hundreds, when getting into car some 15-20 came with you, they bite hard and biting point becomes very large, largest I had was 5x3x1cm in size. At any time when I had to go outside, needed great amount of protective clothing.

So there has not been time at this summer where I could been enjoying and relaxing from weather, last year there were almost none of these bastards, but this year more than two times of normal. Rather annoying.

Would like to hear how things are in other countries, at countryside mostly as here this is at countryside too, in town there is lot less of problem.

[Speedy88]

Ouch! Only ever had one horsefly bite. Hurt like hell for a week Mostly just get chewed by mosquitoes here but they seem to hate Boots bug spray which I coat myself in if I'm ever camping. They hated it so much they went for my ankles which was the only part of my body I didn't cover.

That and I'm a ninja, they don't even get close before I pluck them out the air.