Bumper year for mosquitos?

not here in West Yorkshire but we've had loads of ladybirds in the last 2 weeks

Same here in North Yorkshire. Not normally a problem or a thing, but they have been. One morning I woke up and I’d clearly left a shoulder on display, peppered!!!

Haven't had one bite, by anything, all year.

Carpet Moths though....

Loads of mozzies here in Suffolk. 😬

FIrst year ever I've been plagued by them.
Normally they are just not bothered - this year though - they are after every exposed bit of skin.

Yes been ridiculous here in West Sussex. And you’re not the first person I’ve heard mention it seems like a thing.

Mildly warm + wet seems to be the reason. **** climate change. I want autumn.

none here in northants, but last week or so zillions of tiny white flies, midge size, and just float around in the air like ash
Never seen them before, and theyre not as itchy as mozzies, but you cant go outside for 5 minutes without lond sleeves on. I havent seen them actually bite, but theyre most irritating

All round the house here in Dorset (inside as well as out as we have the windows open as its so warm). Not bity ones though - the ones which make a real high pitched buzz right by your ear but are otherwise silent.

Was in greece a few weeks back and they were plagued by proper bitey ones after the storm. Shop sold out of every mozzy spray and bite cream. Looked like a plague pit with everyone covered in large red welts 😬

Tonight's tally is 4. I'm pretty sure I saw one of the spiders cutting one free from its web because it just can't eat any more of them. I wouldn't mind but there's a reason I keep a panoply of spiders round the house and it isn't so I have to kill flying biting insects myself.

It's fair chilly out mind so they should be hunkering down now with a bit of luck but I didn't do this much room clearance before bed in Kenya!

Ha try living near Parkgate on the Dee estuary then come back to me about Mozzers.

For the last 30 years I would vote for anyone that would do something about them here!!!!

I have an Aldi electric tennis racket in every room just for the ability to kill the buggers. Our local FB group is awash with people complaining about the biting little buggers every year.

I'm currently in southern Piedmont, near the border to Liguria and France.

The various insects seem to come in waves. One or two days I'll be plagued by flies. The next wave will be stink bugs (which incidentally manage to crawl into ever crevice on the van). Then mosquitoes.

I got bitten the other week by something my body didn't like. No idea if my immune system was flagging or I was bitten by something nasty, but each bite itched like F and the bite would swell up abs ooze a clear puss/liquid before scabbing over. Had it on my arms, legs, face and my right hand swelled up to ~50% its normal size.

I had nine bites on the right hand side of my neck, for our five on the left and no bloody idea how many on the rest of my body.

I felt rank. Covered myself in loads of anti-itch cream I had left over from Portugal (where, when I come to think of it I had a similar reaction to insect bites, hence having the cream)and popped a few cortisone pills a nurse friend had and it was gone after a few days, although I still had the scabs for a few more days.

Strange.

The Tiger mosquito is making its way north through Europe. I saw them in the Pyrenees, the Charente, Vosges mountains and around Munich this summer.

It's not all that long ago that malaria was still present in parts of Europe and with rising temperatures it is very likely to return.

It’s so dry where I am in Queensland this year that we’ve barely had any.

They’re easier to manage than bushfires though so I’d be relatively happy to see them.

I was going to post about Parkgate - my old home town was Little Neston

I believe that the RSPB has stopped the marshes being sprayed this year due to it potentially harming the birds that live there.

I’m currently in southern Piedmont, near the border to Liguria and France.

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I got bitten the other week by something my body didn’t like.

I got bitten a few times when I was in France the other week by what I thought might have been horse flies. Massive swollen bite site and then bites as you describe that really scabbed over.

But yes, I've killed a few mozzies in my house recently, big ones too.

North Yorkshire loads

We’ve had a right plague of them in East Yorkshire, the Doctors have a big notice in reception telling people not to come asking for antibiotics if they get bitten.
Funniest thing I’ve heard yet is someone on our local village FB page blaming the local wildlife trust, he reckons they have released 45,000 mosquitoes as there was no natural food for the birds this year!

You do realize that you cant buy anthisan anymore?
Everywhere is out of stock.And the prices they want on amazon/ebay!!!

Nope.  Not a single one in sight but then all the spiders in flat might have consumed them all.  Somehow I have many spiders this year in my flat at every corner and various sizes but I ain't bother.  They do their things and I do mine.

Funniest thing I’ve heard yet is someone on our local village FB page blaming the local wildlife trust, he reckons they have released 45,000 mosquitoes as there was no natural food for the birds this year!

That's quite a specific number.
Does he reckon that there was some poor work experience kid who had to count them all out...

😉

Tiger mosquitoes in Paris now.

Of course the crianlarich mosquitoes are legendary. Brutal and relentless

Lots in North Yorkshire, I will say this though they aren’t bothered about you really….however when we were in the south of france those bastards were on a feeding frenzy! Even got our nearly 1 year old about 3 times!

Lots in North Yorkshire, I will say this though they aren’t bothered about you really

Some of the native species don't bite humans, just birds and things. In any event if they're in my house I'm assuming it's a prelude to one of other of us losing blood. I don't intend it to be me.