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  1. 30th April 08, 02:23 PM #1
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    Midges!

    For those of you who don't know about Highland Midges (Culicoides impunctatus), they tend to fly in swarms and they can drive you absolutely crazy.
    I've had times in America where I had literally hundreds of mosquitoes going for me at once (My wife had never seen anyone the mozzies liked so mych even when they were covered head to toe in bug spray), but it was nothing compared to midges.

    Now, bearing that in mind, I have a love/hate relationship with them. Because as annoying as they are, they are so very Scottish. They just... will always remind me of home.

    I was looking for a midge t-shirt and found this book. And I just have to say:
    Best book cover in the history of the world ever.

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    Gees... All we have out here is scorpians and hila monsters...
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    A hila what???!!!
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    Quote Originally Posted by sharpdressedscot View Post
    A hila what???!!!
    Oops, I misspelled it. It's the gila monster. Here's the Wikipedia thingy on them.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gila_monster
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    To be so tiny.... and such a nightmare when you're enveloped by a swarm of those vile buggers!

    Slainte,
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    You realize that there are Alaskans reading these posts.....

    ...and laughing, no doubt.

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    I bet our Adirondack Mountain "black flies" rival the Scottish midges (especially May through June!). Ouch!

    Great book cover...!
    Brian

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    Quote Originally Posted by Woodsheal View Post
    I bet our Adirondack Mountain "black flies" rival the Scottish midges (especially May through June!). Ouch!

    Great book cover...!
    Yep, in Canada the black fly is the national bird.
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    Mosquitoes the size of 747s! Which is almost as big as a Texas grasshopper...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ted Crocker View Post
    Mosquitoes the size of 747s! Which is almost as big as a Texas grasshopper...
    In Manitoba, where the mosquito is considered to be our Provincial bird, we call them Prehistoric Pterodactyl Skeeters...

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