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30th April 08, 07:59 PM
#11
 Originally Posted by Ted Crocker
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...
Chris...
Youth & Enthusiasm are no match for Age & Treachery
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30th April 08, 08:19 PM
#12
The whole village...
Gone...
Just gone...
I tried to ask my inner curmudgeon before posting, but he sprayed me with the garden hose…
Yes, I have squirrels in my brain…
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30th April 08, 08:22 PM
#13
I will say the scottish midges might be small but their bite pound for pound is far worse than a texas/alaska/minnesota mosquito.
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30th April 08, 08:22 PM
#14
We have midgees, but they don't bite. They are really tiny and when they swarm one can hear the buzz of their wings quite some distance away and it looks like a cloud or smoke. You can spray water on them or spray them with bug spray and it doesn't do a thing. You can walk right through the swarm and they just fly around. Ours come out of the sand or fly over sandy areas. I don't even think the swing of a kilt would bother them. At least they aren't something that would swarm under a kilt!
DALE.
Last edited by sorcererdale; 30th April 08 at 08:23 PM.
Reason: added last 2 lines
You don't have to be Scottish to be comfortable!
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30th April 08, 08:49 PM
#15
My apologies to Chrissss,
I forgot to pay homage to our northern neighbors.
I spent a weekend outside of Winnipeg playing 'eddyline-horsefly-wiffleball' during the day, and swatting mosquitoes all night.
Winter must be a blessing up there.
We've got the same benign midges here on our beaches. They serve to distract you long enough for the black flies to find you. Come to think of it, I like winter here too.
Cheers,
Kevin.
Institutio postulo novus informatio supersto
Proudly monkeying with tradition since 1967.
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30th April 08, 09:00 PM
#16
BEES!!
KILLER BEES!!!
Ok, I'm out of bugs... Except for those fire ants...
I tried to ask my inner curmudgeon before posting, but he sprayed me with the garden hose…
Yes, I have squirrels in my brain…
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30th April 08, 09:35 PM
#17
Every once in a while while living in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, the wind would blow down from the north west with some mosquitoes that were off their authorized flight plan. They tried to compete with the New England Black Fly. What welts they do not leave the greenheads will. I hope not to anger the Scot Midge, as I hope to visit its native area next year.
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Garlic!!
Eat it; bathe in it; put it in your shoes.
Probably won't help.
I tried to ask my inner curmudgeon before posting, but he sprayed me with the garden hose…
Yes, I have squirrels in my brain…
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We have a few to spare Arlen.Why don't you take a billion or two to the U.S.A. with you, so that you will have something to remember Scotland with.
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Ah the Highland midge!
My skin started itching just at the memory of them! 
[B][COLOR="Red"][SIZE="1"]Reverend Earl Trefor the Sublunary of Kesslington under Ox, Venerable Lord Trefor the Unhyphenated of Much Bottom, Sir Trefor the Corpulent of Leighton in the Bucket, Viscount Mcclef the Portable of Kirkby Overblow.
Cymru, Yr Alban, Iwerddon, Cernyw, Ynys Manau a Lydaw am byth! Yng Nghiltiau Ynghyd!
(Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Cornwall, Isle of Man and Brittany forever - united in the Kilts!)[/SIZE][/COLOR][/B]
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