| ...where are the mosquitoes? |
by oot |
2009-10-26 16:12:23 |
I've been in the UK for over a month, and I have not had a single mosquito bite.
That's pretty weird... mosquitoes *love* me... There is plenty of rain so there's lots of places for them to breed, my window has no screen, and I sleep with the window open... I should be *covered* in mosquito bites. But no... not even one!
I *know* there are mosquitoes in the UK... they even have Culex molestus (a species of mosquito found only in the London underground, and a great example of speciation via genetic drift).
...so where are they, and why aren't they biting me?
Not that I'm complaining... and I'm definitely *not* about to go outside wearing nothing but marmite to try to attract British mosquitoes... but a zoologist can find the absence of an organism as interesting as its presence, and I'm curious why in six warm rainy weeks I haven't seen or been bitten by a single mosquito. |
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My guess is that like here it's to cold, not in | by shargo | 2009-10-26 16:19:28 |
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Wish that theory worked in Anchorage. (n/t) | by Nashville | 2009-10-26 17:09:41 |
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They aren't that common. | by AndyA | 2009-10-26 16:23:15 |
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They tend to stay very very close to shady | by confused.brit | 2009-10-26 16:40:32 |
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by watersources i mean rivers, lakes, canals... | by confused.brit | 2009-10-26 16:41:39 |
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Living in the UK I almost never got bitten, | by dodrian | 2009-10-26 17:24:31 |
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"Repellant" is a misnomer | by confused.brit | 2009-10-26 17:28:54 |
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They're not active this time of year. | by McNutcase | 2009-10-26 17:26:42 |
