Northern bugs

[Mopar Hunter]

WTF.

Cicadas. You should see them living in Tennessee.

 

[Sahara]

I’ve posted this before, a long time ago. This is of bulldogs, or horse flies chasing me in the truck. I am moving at 40kph or 25mph in the picture. Look in the rear view mirror to see the mob following.

 

[RJ Squirrel]

In a strange coincedence, I watched a documentary about a place called “The Eye Of The Sahara” that they claim is the worst place in the world for flying insects.

 

[kiwigtx]

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

That show just started up here on TV last night....I tried watching as the Gold Hunters season has finished. I stopped watching after about 15 minutes.
I couldn't take the chat.....it drove me nuts. Those guys are what we call Bogans here.

 

[SlingLow]

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?

I'm not sure about Europe or Asia but around here it's apparently perfumed dryer sheets. I haven't tried it myself.

 

[Sahara]

In a strange coincedence, I watched a documentary about a place called “The Eye Of The Sahara” that they claim is the worst place in the world for flying insects.

But flying insects could be grasshoppers or houseflies. I’m talking about the kind that bite.

 

[Mopar Hunter]

I couldn't take the chat.....it drove me nuts. Those guys are what we call Bogans here.

 

[polywideblock]

just a few

March flies

house fly

blow fly

they all bite

 

[1STMP]

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

Try fishing on a jetty in the Houston
area. I grew up in Minnesota. I would
categorize the discomfort as equal.

 

[RJ Squirrel]

Must be what it looks like up Whoopie’s skirt

 

[Mopar Hunter]

Not sold in Australia, no guns allowed. Here’s an idea.

 

[kiwigtx]

just a few
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March flies
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house fly
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blow fly
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they all bite
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Some flies get really tired over here in New Zealand.

I captured a photo of one giving another one a push-start a year or so back...

 

[Davefinan]

Cicadas. You should see them living in Tennessee.

Nothing like that……yet

 

[Davefinan]

just a few
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March flies
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house fly
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blow fly
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they all bite
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Where is the “ pile of dog **** fly “ ?

 

[YY1]

Northern bugs?

Pffffft!

Come to Florida.

Bugs thrive in this humid, steamy place that never really gets cold.

We've recently had an uptick in numbers of grasshoppers that are up to 8 inches long.
Most are 4-6" but I've seen some 8 inchers.

How big are they up there?

I remember big ones being about 3 inches in Ohio.

 

[Sahara]

Northern bugs?

Pffffft!

Come to Florida.

Bugs thrive in this humid, steamy place that never really gets cold.

We've recently had an uptick in numbers of grasshoppers that are up to 8 inches long.
Most are 4-6" but I've seen some 8 inchers.

How big are they up there?

I remember big ones being about 3 inches in Ohio.

I should have been more specific: northern BITING bugs. There, I fixed it.

 

[Budnicks]

Do you wanna trade?

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cicadas (?) locusts (?)
once ever 17 years, hatch breed & die

I remember them on one of my race trips down south Atlanta (? IIRC) way
when they were "blooming/hatching", I was staying in an RV park
my car & my truck/trailer was 'refer white' they swarmed/covered
& 10-20 min's later were all gone

the big *** beetles, flat wide big look like 'cockroaches sort of'
all over the south east, suck royally too
every campground, truck stop, rest stop & their shower
had them all over in hot seasons, humid as hell too

chiggers (lil' bitting bastards) in the grass suck *** too

no thanks

 

[YY1]

There are different cicada cycles IIRC

13 and 17 year.


Oh, we got plenty of biting bugs here too.

Most of them get larger as well.

 

[Davefinan]

Northern bugs?

Pffffft!

Come to Florida.

Bugs thrive in this humid, steamy place that never really gets cold.

We've recently had an uptick in numbers of grasshoppers that are up to 8 inches long.
Most are 4-6" but I've seen some 8 inchers.

How big are they up there?

I remember big ones being about 3 inches in Ohio.

Ive seen plenty of those so called palmetto bugs down there. Especially in the keys. To me they are just big creepy cockroaches

 

[YY1]

Ive seen plenty of those so called palmetto bugs down there. Especially in the keys. To me they are just big creepy cockroaches

Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

Every house in FL has a few palmetto bugs.....

...but it's not like we have roaches, or anything.

Yuck, that would be nasty.