Bobs wrote in message ...
Sue Bilstein wrote:

"Peter H.M. Brooks" wrote in message
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Mosquitos seem a bit of a menace here, I'm used to them in Cape Town,
but the ones here seem to leave nasty and painful bites - maybe I am
being attacked by sand flies, I wouldn't know how to tell the
difference.


More likely mozzies, sandflies are rare in town. Sandflies are smaller,
compact, short legs, like big midges. You feel a sharp nip when they bite
you, whereas you don't feel mosquito bites at the time but they swell & itch
afterwards.

You will probably find that the bites bother you less as you build up
tolerance to the local variety.

I have never built up an immunity to those fetid little bloodsuckers.
They continue to torment me nightly unless I repel them. Some bites
barely cause a problem, but bites on places like the knuckles and
scrotum hurt and make me rage with furious fury. Even my wang has been
stang from time to time. Bobs is not happy when that happens, let me
tell you.

Apparently Mozzies don't even exist in England and cooler (and less
humid) parts of NZ. At least that is what I've heard, but I refuse to
believe in fairy tales. Those cretins will torment me until the day I
die. They are my nemesis.

They do exist in the UK, I've been bitten by them. They are, however,
very mild bites, far worse are the midges, but they live in Scotland
so aren't a problem in England, at least not down South.

I am hoping that I develop some immunity, I do wonder that a bite that
I'd only have noticed on inspection in South Africa is a major
irritation here. At least there isn't malaria here, though, the bite
that gave me malaria didn't hurt at all (the malaria mosquitos are
smaller and more cunning than the big slow ones down South) but gave
me black water fever and over a week in hospital with pints of blood
necessary to keep me alive...