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I was in New York state a few days ago visiting a friend, and down by a lake, walked right into a cloud of bugs so dense that I was almost afraid to breathe. That night when I got home from there, we had similar infestations of the same thing. They were just awful, and I could hardly get into the house! Too bad we do not have bats. I'd have found them on the lawn the next morning, stuffed and burping ! :)
So, this morning I was looking at an Ohio paper and they said the little darlings are Midges. I wonder if they are the same kind as in Scotland? Mine do not seem to bite. They just get in your hair and on your face.
Much peace
Gwendolyn
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We've got bats!!
We've
got
bats!!
A million and a half of them live under one bridge, but you can't have any! They eat up to 30 thousand pounds (over 13,500kg) of buggy little buggers a night. Umm-num-num!!
But they still don't get all the mosquitoes, damnit.
Bats and Bridges
Might you be in Texas - San Antonio or Austin? I remember walking under the North St. Mary's Street Bridge in downtown SA. There was a vestival and there was a bunuellos vendor taking advantage of the shades. This was around 1978. We queued up to get some and realized we were hearing what sounded like rain. We quickly realized it was bat droppings - guano. We decided to get our bunuellos elsewhere.
Portia
Portia
Midges
If they ddn't bite,they ain't the Britsh (not just Scots) bestiole.
Northern Scotland. Remote wild camping. Crawl naked from tent in middle of night to micturate.
Find out tha the overnight drizzle has left several hundred of the little bastards roosting under the flysheet,
The rest I leave as an exercise for your imagination.
I think I need
I think I need my eyes checked. I took a quick look at the titles in the blogs, and thought I read "Good heavens! We have Midgets!. Then I was muzzily wondering just what the problem was, then thinking about the difficulty of finding clothes to fit midget TS/TG since all the Little People (I think that is what they prefer to be called now?) have problems with that......
Then I reread the title.
CaroL
CaroL