I'd swap all the mossies in the world for the amount of wasps / hornets that are around right now

Oh great .... so now we need to watch out for them too
And I thought Australia was riddled with danger!

Pest control is your friend

so when you say newbies are coming out in bumps does that mean that we will eventually get used to them and not react anymore! ive been here 4 months and had 6 of the buggers biting me!! they leave a nasty mark thats about 6cm round! if not bigger and they are irritable, antihistimines are good for them but i couldent belive the price! $12 a box ah well better get used to it lol.

Most people get used to them, but not everyone.

For example they do not bother me much anymore, but they are still an annoyance. My wife still has the same reaction she had when we arrived and I have a daughter who is allergic and her reaction got worse rather than better. The area of the bite swells up like a ballon and she has many nasty looking scars.

There are those who think mosquito bites are a good thing and spread all kinds of old wives tales about their supposed benefits.

A friend of mine who is a doctor said they had a conference at McGill University where leading professionals examined all the arguements for and against eradicating Mosquitoes. It was decided that they could be safely eradicated from the face of the earth without any major consequences. But easier said than done.

We found the first year was the worst for us, I remember my sister and I being wall to wall fly bites and often having to jump in a cool bath with baking soda in the middle of the night. The second summer wasn't nearly as bad. If the welts are that big and continue to be that big you might want to get checked for allergies, normally they would be about the size of a pea but you do see the odd exception. There are these tiny little flies commonly nicknamed "no-see-em's" because you can't see them, only feel them (man do they pack a wallop!) that are unfortunately small enough to pass through fly screen mesh. Their bites can come up as big welts so perhaps that's what's gotten you but thankfully they don't seem to be as common as mozzies.