Northern bugs

[Sahara]

I’ve mentioned how we have the worst bugs in the world up here, although I imagine northern Russia and Scandinavia have similar topography and probably similar bugs.
My buddy Shawn took this photo today.

 

[66 Sat]

So you have to put up with that weather  and bugs too...

I'd have thought it was too cold for them.

 

[multimopes]

Holy Crap! That could drive anyone crazy!

 

[Scott Engelhardt]

I’ve mentioned how we have the worst bugs in the world up here, although I imagine northern Russia and Scandinavia have similar topography and probably similar bugs.
My buddy Shawn took this photo today.View attachment 1882907

Looks like i would spend summer indoors

 

[Hey-O]

So you have to put up with that weather  and bugs too...

I'd have thought it was too cold for them.

One more act of God like that and I'd move, oh that's right, I did................ LOL

 

[Sahara]

So you have to put up with that weather  and bugs too...

I'd have thought it was too cold for them.

You have to go very high arctic to get into places with no bugs. About a hundred miles west of us where the McKenzie River flows out of Great Slave Lake at Ft. Providence and Kakisa the bugs are reputed to among the worst, if not the worst, on the planet. Scientists come here to research them. Indescribable.

 

[Sahara]

Looks like i would spend summer indoors

You learn to work around it. They are worse at dawn and dusk and you try to stay out in the open where there is a breeze.

 

[Davefinan]

Maybe they have a shorter window of time harass so they come out with a vengeance

 

[Unkle Krusty]

We have been to Tuktoyaktuk. We know about the bugs. Amazon has the mesh jackets with full head and arms covering. We put mesh over the door window openings, so we could leave the windows down. It was warmer in Inuvik than it was on my Island. Curtesy of the sun not going down.
Distance wise for tne Southern folks. If you started in Texas, and got to the Canadian border, you would be half way to the Arctic, or Tuk. Gravel roads. Do not bring anything worth anything. It will get wrecked.

 

[Scott Engelhardt]

You have to go very high arctic to get into places with no bugs. About a hundred miles west of us where the McKenzie River flows out of Great Slave Lake at Ft. Providence and Kakisa the bugs are reputed to among the worst, if not the worst, on the planet. Scientists come here to research them. Indescribable.

I'm an outdoors guy, I would find a way. I could wear a face net like I wear when I pick raspberries

 

[SlingLow]

When I was in Alaska, I decided to sleep out under the stars one night. I woke up to see 2 mosquitoes hovering over me. One of them asked the other, 'Do you want to eat him here or take him with us?' The other one said, 'We better eat him here, otherwise the biguns will get him!'

 

[Coelacanth]

My father and I did a fishing trip when I was 14 to Great Bear Lake...I remember the trophy fish were almost as big as the trophy horseflies.

 

[Coelacanth]

Up north, the horseflies are so big, horses swarm around THEM.

 

[Sahara]

If Chuck Norris was a fly he would live here.

 

[bandit67]

In the movie, "The Way Back", based on a true story, the guys walked some 4000 miles from Northern Russia to India. In one scene they are in some country being eaten alive by swarms of bugs. They see some locals walking by not being bothered at all by the bugs. They have this ring of something around their neck, and the bugs are repelled. Always wondered what in the world that was, any clue?

 

[Budnicks]

Alaska out of town, on the tundra, muskeg
was a lot like that, lots of standing waters, some stinky sh-t
no-see-em's were the worst, farther east & inland the worst they were

moose, bear, muskox, dahl sheep, caribou etc.
all were swarming with them, hell to skin & quarter out

I sort of felt sorry for the wildlife & dealing with that **** 24/7
for 6 months at a time
it never let up, until winter came in
at least I could go inside & get away from it

the reg. mosquitos were like the 'state bird',
min. are twice as big as Calif. pests

I loved it up there, especially in Palmer area
but I don't miss the stinky bug repellent 'musk balm'
& the freaken' no-see-em's skeeters
but everyone smelled like musk, so it didn't matter...

You could always tell a tourist, no matter what they wore
because they wore perfume/lotions & would get swarmed by them
poor bastards

The outdoors & vast open country, abundant (huge) wildlife everywhere
sort of made up for a whole lot of it...

 

[Mopar Hunter]

Do you wanna trade?

 

[Davefinan]

Do you wanna trade?

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WTF.

 

[kiwigtx]

I watch a lot of those Building Alaska and Alaskan HGTV shows etc ....I have seen a lot of them covered in mozzies, bugs and various critters.

The ones that make me cringe is on the Australian Gold Hunter shows.....the guys have hundreds of flies all over them out in the hot desert areas..... and even when it rains, they get flies. One guy in particular - old Shane Calegari has always got flies on his face....around his mouth....he never seems too bothered.

 

[Mopar Hunter]

The ones that make me cringe is on the Australian Gold Hunter shows...

There’s a show that takes place in Australia, called Opal Hunters, they deal with the same type of flies.