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llareggub

I have no idea what is nibbling on me at the moment but I am getting some very strange reactions! I'm used to getting bitten and generally take no notice, a little itchy but 20 mins later all gone...

It's only been happening in the last week or so but they are coming up like blisters and getting huge red marks around them with a slight inflammation, got one on my arm yesterday and the red mark is about 100mm in diameter

richardmc

Join the bite club!!! yes treat with anti histamine cream/pills and the swelling will be gone in about 2/3 days and the bite mark about a week. I have some bites that have left scars on my thumb

Rural Hungary

Are they like small water blisters

FenTiger

I might invest in a burka before I fly over to Hungary next week. These mosquito bites are scaring me!

llareggub

Yeah, they go down after an hour or so and then the red 'blotch' appears.

fidobsa

For the last week the mosquito problem has been overshadowed by the cleg (horse fly) problem, especially when taking Charlie, the Basset Hound for walks in the forest. They are smaller than the UK horse flies but they still give a worse bite than a mozzie, as they tear the flesh rather than piercing it. The bites usually bleed a bit and can swell up a lot if you don't swat the fly the instant it bites.

Rural Hungary

Sounds like contact dermatitis caused by a reaction to something in the garden. I get it if I touch or brush past my nasturtiums, grew them for years without problems

Fib, is it not perhaps deer fly that are bothering you? The horse fly here are huge, bigger than any cleg I ever saw and they tend not to like shaded areas. The deer fly however are smaller and you do find them in forests, their bites are equally as sore and likely to cause a reaction.

llareggub

It would be a surprise if it is, never had anything like it at all... Our garden is sparse this year and as such is left mostly alone. I believe it's a bug of some sort, just never seen a reaction like it on my body despite 20 years of dragging my sorry behind around the world

Rural Hungary

I had never reacted to anything in the garden before until a couple of years ago when I had the odd one or two isolated blisters which disappeared quickly but left a red blotch and would sometimes be itchy. Never really bothered me and never gave it much thought until this year when I erupted in them and started searching for a cause and it turned out to be contact dermatitis and flared up every time I touched the nasturtiums.

Hopefully yours is something different as if it worsens, it is quite uncomfortable.

Midges, mosquitoes and gnats

Bites from midges, mosquitoes and gnats often cause small papules (lumps) to form on your skin that are usually very itchy. If you are particularly sensitive to insect bites, you may develop:
bullae (fluid-filled blisters)
weals (circular, fluid-filled areas surrounding the bite)

FenTiger

Had to post this. Watch the video!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...ome-video.html

FenTiger

Another article in the Daily Mail about Mozzies!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/ar...ing-women.html

fidobsa

Yes, they are all members of the tabanidae genus and in north east Scotland they were all just referred to as clegs. I have seen a large grey fly about the size and shape of a hornet, which I guess is the Hungarian horse fly you mentioned.

Rural Hungary

Hi, in North West Scotland, we also called them clegs though I remember them being just bigger than a normal blue bottle, nothing like the monsters here. The horse flies we have seen are either dark brown or dark grey and more elongated than a normal fly. The inch long ones are quite horrid with their bulbous, metallic looking eyes. Thankfully, they are big enough that you tend to feel them land on you and can swot them before they bite.

FenTiger

I've just looked at some images of these horse flies ... jeez ... they look scarey .... they remind me of a horror movie whereby this scientist ends up as a fly! or am I imagining things!