I am sure I read somewhere that we were not going to have many mozzies this year (think it was on the CBC Calgary pages but can't be totally sure)...

So can someone explain just why I got eaten to death by them on a very short 5 minute walk yesterday evening??? I have counted over 30 separate bites!

I have huge, itchy red lumps everywhere, some of them oozing (NICE!)....

I know I am allergic to mozzie bites but surely I shouldn't have been bitten this badly if mozzies were going to be in short supply due to the cold weather over the winter etc...

I've just had a nasty looking wasp fly into the office. I think he smelled the double smoked hot dog I had for lunch. Why do Canadians insist they're bees when they're clearly not?

I find the wasps here to be gentle, loving creatures, not like real wasps at all.

Most Canadians I know are well aware of the difference.

Doesn't say much for the one you know though.

I must say all hell broke lose a few minutes ago, I was going to call Maintenance but he flew out the window.

Maintenance flew out the window.
Are they that afraid of wasps?

There will be more mozzies this year than previous DUE to the amount of snow we had in winter.

Think yourself lucky, we have accumulated a slew in the pasture - you can here them partying at dawn

You were not wrong.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgar...es-spring.html

Never walk in grassy areas around dusk without some sort of repellent preferably something with DEET in as high a concentration as you can find.

Deep Woods Off is supposed to be good, the one ounce pump is almost pure DEET (98.25%).

That's what I use, the green one not the orange one, that seems to attract them.

I ended up running up the garden away from a bloody great cloud of them the other day, they were bouncing off me everywhere. I've never seen them this bad here, reminds me of living out East. Mind you, the ruddy great lake I have in the garden where there's normally a small puddle in the spring might have something to do with it.

We are not a-having mozzies in Richmond Hill.

We don't seem to get many of them in Vancouver. Maybe they don't like the rain?

I am glad I was not imagining it.

What pissed me off was that it wasn't anywhere near dusk - 3.30pm or just after, walking across the playing field near where I live. And I was not only fully covered (long sleeved top but the buggers still bit me through it!) but was wearing insect repellant...

the damn things love me that is the problem

Perhaps the Blue one (Deep Woods Sportsmen) might be better in the one ounce pump.

The Green ones only contain a maximum of 25% DEET.

Just a thought.

It is a-raining not in Richmond Hill either.

Is that because of the smog in the GTA ?