The bites leave animals anemic and bleeding under their skins, and they also become exhausted from constantly moving in an attempt to avoid the insects.
God you are lucky in lapland. I have always wanted to do that, but the ones here in northern ostrobothnia dont fit trough the doors so we can use them only as patio furniture.
Last year I had to take some parts to a pivot crew working in soybeans. I want to preface this that I used to farm and I’ve built fences next to river bottoms I’ve had to deal with some bad mosquitoes.
With that said I never have seen a mosquito outbreak like last summer fall. I took two steps into that field and was immediately covered. I have no idea how those builders could stand being out there.
I think, if they wanted to, those mosquitoes could have lifted me off the ground and flown me to their lair.
The size of mosquitoes in rural Canada confirms this is possible. It could even require 4 of them to completely bleed a human dry.
In Finnish lapland we have mosquitoes so big that my friend takes them and dries them to make sauna stools.
God you are lucky in lapland. I have always wanted to do that, but the ones here in northern ostrobothnia dont fit trough the doors so we can use them only as patio furniture.
Sailors round these parts use the massive ancient mosquitos to navigate the ocean since they dont move in the sky
Tell me you’re from the ostrobothnia without telling me you’re from the ostrobothnia.
Especially in Manitoba, it is the provincial bird afterall
Yeah, we can cut steaks off them.
They generally don’t though, they prefer picking people up and dropping them from height on some sharp rocks, then feasting on the corpse.
Last year I had to take some parts to a pivot crew working in soybeans. I want to preface this that I used to farm and I’ve built fences next to river bottoms I’ve had to deal with some bad mosquitoes.
With that said I never have seen a mosquito outbreak like last summer fall. I took two steps into that field and was immediately covered. I have no idea how those builders could stand being out there.
I think, if they wanted to, those mosquitoes could have lifted me off the ground and flown me to their lair.
the large ones are called elephant mosquitoes totally harmless thier larva usually hunt actual mosquitoes in water.