harry wrote:

the female mosquito only bites the once.


Who told you that?

--
Cheers
Oldus Fartus

Aardvark wrote:
On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:22:59 -0700, Matty F wrote:

On Jul 23, 4:54 am, "Wallace" wrote:

bug zapper. turn it on at night, with other lights off.
I've heard that mozzies are attracted to CO2 being breathed out, and not
to the light in a bug zapper. Try a bugzapper with a CO2 source.

Or attach a bug zapper to your forehead, or to the front of the flypaper
hat with aluminium foil lining.




I have found one of the most effective solutions is to get ****ed before
bed, then take a long bath in Scotch whisky, followed by a roll in a
sand pit. When the little muthas bite during the night they suck up all
the whisky, get argumentative and kill each other by throwing the grains
of sand.

--
Cheers
Oldus Fartus

"Matty F" wrote in message
...
On Jul 23, 4:54 am, "Wallace" wrote:

bug zapper. turn it on at night, with other lights off.

I've heard that mozzies are attracted to CO2 being breathed out, and
not to the light in a bug zapper. Try a bugzapper with a CO2 source.

not needed. The zapper with the black light works just fine.

Spamlet wrote:
"Buffalo" wrote in message
...

john hamilton wrote:
A mosquito has been in our bedroom for about a week, biting regularly
at night; when we are fast asleep, in the early hours. We have some
immovable cupboards etc, that are ideal for it to hide behind.

Is there any way to entice it out, so we can deal with it?
Try one of those bug bombs that they sell. Some just need water added and
then you set them down and vacate the premises for the required time
(usually stated on the package). This will also take care of many other
pests also.
Buffalo

Interesting, as 'buffalo gnats' AKA blackfly (simuliidae), pack a much worse
bite than mosquitos and are every bit as sneaky. Not safe to go into garden
at dusk in the summer at all.

What we call sandflies, which I think are also known as blackflies, are worse
than mozzies because they hurt more. Mozzies are more surreptitious, somehow
managing to insert their sucking tube without you noticing. The worst thing
about them at night is that damnable whine. If they were quiet I wouldn't care
much, since I don't get an itchy lump.

Spamlet wrote:

The ones that sit with their back legs up and the body at an angle to the
surface are the malaria carrying ones, and, yes, we do have them in the UK.

The NZ variety do that, IIRC, but there's no malaria here.

john hamilton wrote:
A mosquito has been in our bedroom for about a week, biting regularly at
night; when we are fast asleep, in the early hours. We have some immovable
cupboards etc, that are ideal for it to hide behind.

Is there any way to entice it out, so we can deal with it?



If you stay awake for a while after turning out the light you'll hear a mozzie
for sure. If you hear nothing it's not a mozzie.

On 22 July, 16:56, The Natural Philosopher
wrote:
harry wrote:
On 22 July, 16:11, "john hamilton" wrote:
A mosquito has been in our bedroom for about a week, biting regularly at
night; when we are fast asleep, in the early hours. We have some immovable
cupboards etc, that are ideal for it to hide behind.

Is there any way to entice it out, so we can deal with it?

It's probably bed bugs.
the female mosquito only bites the once.

how does it transmit malaria then?

It bites once & goes away to lay eggs, mates again & then comes back
to bite again.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosquit...bits_of_adults.

On 23 July, 04:11, Oldus Fartus
wrote:
harry wrote:
the female mosquito only bites the once.

Who told you that?

--
Cheers
Oldus Fartus

It bites & goes away & lays eggs. It may then repeat the cycles. It
only needs bllod for egg laying.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosquit...bits_of_adults

On Fri, 23 Jul 2010 16:13:17 +1200, Gib Bogle wrote:

The ones that sit with their back legs up and the body at an angle
to
the surface are the malaria carrying ones, and, yes, we do have
them
in the UK.

The NZ variety do that, IIRC, but there's no malaria here.

There is no malaria here either at least not in the general
human/mozzie population. I think there have been a few very isolated
cases of transfer of malaria from some one bringing it back with them
from climes foreign to some one in the same household.

--
Cheers
Dave.

"Spamlet" wrote in message
...

"Buffalo" wrote in message
...


john hamilton wrote:
A mosquito has been in our bedroom for about a week, biting regularly
at night; when we are fast asleep, in the early hours. We have some
immovable cupboards etc, that are ideal for it to hide behind.

Is there any way to entice it out, so we can deal with it?

Try one of those bug bombs that they sell. Some just need water added and
then you set them down and vacate the premises for the required time
(usually stated on the package). This will also take care of many other
pests also.
Buffalo

Interesting, as 'buffalo gnats' AKA blackfly (simuliidae), pack a much
worse bite than mosquitos and are every bit as sneaky. Not safe to go
into garden at dusk in the summer at all.


Especially during a stampede.

On 22/07/2010 17:37, Aardvark wrote:
On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 17:22:11 +0100, Vortex7 wrote:

Olde fashioned flypaper's, do they still exist?...

Flypaper's what?

Get em from Robert Dyas (or indeed probably lots of other places).

Whoooooossssssshhhhhhhhh!!!1!!!!11!!!1!



Yup that went so far over his head, not only did it not make a parting,
there wasn't enough draught to disturb the flight path's of the mosquito's

:-)

Dave Liquorice wrote:
On Fri, 23 Jul 2010 16:13:17 +1200, Gib Bogle wrote:

The ones that sit with their back legs up and the body at an angle
to
the surface are the malaria carrying ones, and, yes, we do have
them
in the UK.
The NZ variety do that, IIRC, but there's no malaria here.

There is no malaria here either at least not in the general
human/mozzie population. I think there have been a few very isolated
cases of transfer of malaria from some one bringing it back with them
from climes foreign to some one in the same household.


Whenever I see your name I think of liquorice papers, for some reason.

On Jul 23, 4:03 pm, "Wallace" wrote:
"Matty F" wrote in message

...

On Jul 23, 4:54 am, "Wallace" wrote:

bug zapper. turn it on at night, with other lights off.

I've heard that mozzies are attracted to CO2 being breathed out, and
not to the light in a bug zapper. Try a bugzapper with a CO2 source.

not needed. The zapper with the black light works just fine.

Here I looked it up for you:

http://home.howstuffworks.com/bug-zapper.htm

"By design, bug zappers do not discriminate between types of insects,
but because of their luring strategy, they tend kill those insects
that are most attracted to ultraviolet light. Mosquitoes,
unfortunately, are not attracted to ultraviolet light."

http://www.livingwithbugs.com/mos_blt.html

"blacklight traps do a poor job of attracting biting flies like adult
female mosquitoes and biting gnats, and, in fact, attracted and killed
many more beneficial insect species. The traps were therefore
considered to be environmentally harmful because of damage to the
natural fauna.

The bottom line - don't use blacklight "bug zapper"-type traps for
mosquitoes. If you must use a trap try one of the propane-fueled
carbon dioxide traps since they are far more selective and won't
attract as many beneficial species"

"Matty F" wrote in message
...
On Jul 23, 4:03 pm, "Wallace" wrote:
"Matty F" wrote in message

...

On Jul 23, 4:54 am, "Wallace" wrote:

bug zapper. turn it on at night, with other lights off.

I've heard that mozzies are attracted to CO2 being breathed out, and
not to the light in a bug zapper. Try a bugzapper with a CO2 source.

not needed. The zapper with the black light works just fine.

Here I looked it up for you:

http://home.howstuffworks.com/bug-zapper.htm

"By design, bug zappers do not discriminate between types of insects,
but because of their luring strategy, they tend kill those insects
that are most attracted to ultraviolet light. Mosquitoes,
unfortunately, are not attracted to ultraviolet light."

http://www.livingwithbugs.com/mos_blt.html

"blacklight traps do a poor job of attracting biting flies like adult
female mosquitoes and biting gnats, and, in fact, attracted and killed
many more beneficial insect species. The traps were therefore
considered to be environmentally harmful because of damage to the
natural fauna.

The bottom line - don't use blacklight "bug zapper"-type traps for
mosquitoes. If you must use a trap try one of the propane-fueled
carbon dioxide traps since they are far more selective and won't
attract as many beneficial species"

All I can tell you is at our hunting place when we had mosquitoes indoors we
turned out the lights, turned on the bug zapper, and in a few minutes they
were all zapped. You do what you want.

see also:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2688798/

"We found that black light traps captured significantly more mosquitoes at 2
and 2.5 m above the ground (P 0.05). We also evaluated the effectiveness
of trap spacing within the livestock enclosure. In general, traps spaced
between 4 and 7 m apart captured mosquitoes more efficiently than those
spaced closer together (P 0.05). Based on these findings, we concluded
that each black light trap in the livestock enclosures killed 7,586 female
mosquitoes per trap per night during the peak mosquito season (July-August).
In May-August 2003, additional concurrent field trials were conducted in
Ganghwa county. We got 74.9% reduction (P 0.05) of An. sinensis in human
dwellings and 61.5% reduction (P 0.05) in the livestock enclosures. The
black light trap operation in the livestock enclosures proved to be an
effective control method and should be incorporated into existing control
strategies in developed countries."

http://books.google.com/books?id=VM8...ight&f=fa lse

On 22 July, 17:01, "Dave Baker" wrote:
"john hamilton" wrote in message

...

A mosquito has been in our bedroom for about a week, biting regularly at
night; when we are fast asleep, in the early hours. We have some immovable
cupboards etc, that are ideal for it to hide behind.

Is there any way to entice it out, so we can deal with it?

They love cheese. Just pop a bit of cheese on a sprung trap and it'll come
out during the night and get its little neck broken. Oh hang on - that's
mousies not mozzies.
--
Dave Baker

did you know an Arab can live a year on a grain of rice ?

On Jul 24, 1:28 am, "Wallace" wrote:

All I can tell you is at our hunting place when we had mosquitoes indoors we
turned out the lights, turned on the bug zapper, and in a few minutes they
were all zapped. You do what you want.

see also:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2688798/

OK then, I'll always believe an actual test over what some "expert"
says.
But I can't test it myself. There's been no mosquitoes around here for
years.
Global Warming must have killed them all.

gloria.p wrote:


Bedbugs are a possibility, particularly if you have been traveling
recently.

Look also to spiders. Here are some photos comparing bedbug to spider
bites:

http://www.badspiderbites.com/

gloria p

Those are _American_ spider bites. There being 2 UK groups on the list I
assume the OP is in the UK. I don't think any UK species do anything
like that.

Andy

"Ian B" wrote in message
...

"Spamlet" wrote in message
...

"Buffalo" wrote in message
...


john hamilton wrote:
A mosquito has been in our bedroom for about a week, biting regularly
at night; when we are fast asleep, in the early hours. We have some
immovable cupboards etc, that are ideal for it to hide behind.

Is there any way to entice it out, so we can deal with it?

Try one of those bug bombs that they sell. Some just need water added
and
then you set them down and vacate the premises for the required time
(usually stated on the package). This will also take care of many other
pests also.
Buffalo

Interesting, as 'buffalo gnats' AKA blackfly (simuliidae), pack a much
worse bite than mosquitos and are every bit as sneaky. Not safe to go
into garden at dusk in the summer at all.


Especially during a stampede.

Indeed, the uk Natural History Museum (where I sent samples from our garden)
is part of the world wide project to find ways of eradicating the simuliids.
One of the dangers is that, near water, they do form swarms large enough to
cause cattle to stampede to try and escape them. In our garden they are
silent and almost invisible in the evening, and they have no trouble biting
through clothing, and leave lumps like new muscles that ache for several
days. They are supposed to rely on running water to breed, but our garden
is on a hillside half a mile from the nearest stream.

Only way to beat them is not to go out there at dusk.

S

"Dave Liquorice" wrote in message
ll.co.uk...
On Fri, 23 Jul 2010 16:13:17 +1200, Gib Bogle wrote:

The ones that sit with their back legs up and the body at an angle
to
the surface are the malaria carrying ones, and, yes, we do have
them
in the UK.

The NZ variety do that, IIRC, but there's no malaria here.

There is no malaria here either at least not in the general
human/mozzie population. I think there have been a few very isolated
cases of transfer of malaria from some one bringing it back with them
from climes foreign to some one in the same household.
--
Cheers
Dave.

Malaria did used to be common in the UK and there are stories of men from
the marshes having had to have many wives as they tended to die fairly
quickly after being taken home. The environment agency is busily surveying
on the marshes - as seen on recent tv prog - and mincing up mossies by the
hundred looking for signs of malarial DNA. With so much air travel it is
only a matter of time before malaria gets back into our mossies. On the
other hand, in the US they have started releasing mossies in which malaria
cannot survive...

A friend who used to write some of the Rough Guides, had malaria, and when
it flared up, he had a job to convince the local hospital to believe him:
think what it would be like for someone who hadn't actually written about
how to avoid travellers' diseases and was in regular contact with the London
School of Tropical Medicine! An ordinary person is likely to go undiagnosed
for quite long enough to get bitten by a home grown mossie...

S

"Andy Champ" wrote in message
. uk...
gloria.p wrote:


Bedbugs are a possibility, particularly if you have been traveling
recently.

Look also to spiders. Here are some photos comparing bedbug to spider
bites:

http://www.badspiderbites.com/

gloria p

Those are _American_ spider bites. There being 2 UK groups on the list I
assume the OP is in the UK. I don't think any UK species do anything like
that.

Andy

There is an alien one getting about that bites: was on tv recently but I
forget its name.

S

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember Jethro
saying something like:

did you know an Arab can live a year on a grain of rice ?

That's a pretty impressive balancing act.

"Spamlet" wrote in message
...

"Andy Champ" wrote in message
. uk...
gloria.p wrote:


Bedbugs are a possibility, particularly if you have been traveling
recently.

Look also to spiders. Here are some photos comparing bedbug to spider
bites:

http://www.badspiderbites.com/

gloria p

Those are _American_ spider bites. There being 2 UK groups on the list I
assume the OP is in the UK. I don't think any UK species do anything
like that.

Andy

There is an alien one getting about that bites: was on tv recently but I
forget its name.

And the little brown 'ladybird' shaped carpet beetles also manage to bite
before you roll over and squash them.


S

On Fri, 23 Jul 2010 23:43:11 +0100, Spamlet wrote:

Malaria did used to be common in the UK

Was known as the Ague IIRC.

With so much air travel it is only a matter of time before malaria gets
back into our mossies.

Quite probably, but our climate is borderline for it. Might be a
problem down south but I'm not sure it (or the adult mozzies) can
over winter further north.

A friend who used to write some of the Rough Guides, had malaria, and
when it flared up, he had a job to convince the local hospital to
believe him:

Quite, this story is rather worrying:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10522909

The problem is it can stay low for such a long time after infection
with the parasite. All the same the repeated diagnosis of flu isn't
right, first time maybe but not second time even within a couple of
months flu just isn't that common. That should have raised a "hum,
there is something different here" flag and further questioning,
tests etc performed.

--
Cheers
Dave.

"Matty F" wrote in message
...
On Jul 24, 1:28 am, "Wallace" wrote:

All I can tell you is at our hunting place when we had mosquitoes indoors
we
turned out the lights, turned on the bug zapper, and in a few minutes
they
were all zapped. You do what you want.

see also:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2688798/

OK then, I'll always believe an actual test over what some "expert"
says.

Wow, you could knock me over with a feather! I've never seen such a reply
on the web! Good for you man. I'm not kidding. A thumbs up for you!

All I've seen is the digging in of heels and the name calling and restating
what was said so as to call the other a liar and bolster one's own position.

I am really awestruck! Speechless!

You have made my day. Unless you are pulling my leg . . .

Cheers!


But I can't test it myself. There's been no mosquitoes around here for
years.
Global Warming must have killed them all.

On Fri, 23 Jul 2010 11:11:18 +0800, Oldus Fartus wrote:

harry wrote:

the female mosquito only bites the once.


Who told you that?

A female mosquito he once dated. She told him she was a virgin too.



--
"Snakes! Sons of vipers! How will you escape the judgment of hell?"
Matthew 23:33.
The whole chapter is cool, too.

On Fri, 23 Jul 2010 11:20:32 +0800, Oldus Fartus wrote:

Aardvark wrote:
On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:22:59 -0700, Matty F wrote:

On Jul 23, 4:54 am, "Wallace" wrote:

bug zapper. turn it on at night, with other lights off.
I've heard that mozzies are attracted to CO2 being breathed out, and
not to the light in a bug zapper. Try a bugzapper with a CO2 source.

Or attach a bug zapper to your forehead, or to the front of the
flypaper hat with aluminium foil lining.




I have found one of the most effective solutions is to get ****ed before
bed, then take a long bath in Scotch whisky, followed by a roll in a
sand pit. When the little muthas bite during the night they suck up all
the whisky, get argumentative and kill each other by throwing the grains
of sand.

Sounds like a cunning plan, mate.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKRxX3s3JlM

--
"Snakes! Sons of vipers! How will you escape the judgment of hell?"
Matthew 23:33.
The whole chapter is cool, too.

Andy Champ wrote:

gloria.p wrote:

http://www.badspiderbites.com/

Those are _American_ spider bites. There being 2 UK groups on the list I
assume the OP is in the UK. I don't think any UK species do anything
like that.

I hope not

http://www.badspiderbites.com/images...der-bite-b.jpg

Aardvark wrote:
On Fri, 23 Jul 2010 11:11:18 +0800, Oldus Fartus wrote:

harry wrote:

the female mosquito only bites the once.


Who told you that?

A female mosquito he once dated. She told him she was a virgin too.




:-)

--
Cheers
Oldus Fartus

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember "Wallace"
saying something like:

OK then, I'll always believe an actual test over what some "expert"
says.

Wow, you could knock me over with a feather! I've never seen such a reply
on the web! Good for you man. I'm not kidding. A thumbs up for you!

All I've seen is the digging in of heels and the name calling and restating
what was said so as to call the other a liar and bolster one's own position.

I am really awestruck! Speechless!

You have made my day. Unless you are pulling my leg . . .

Thin end of the wedge, if you ask me. I mean, before you know it, we'll
have tests and facts and undisputable results and the experts will be
out of a job. Could turn things on their head, that could, and be the
end of civilisation as we know it, with consultants on the dole queue
left, right and centre.
Think, man, think - the economic revival might very well depend on
clueless, useless, otherwise unemployable armies of consultants and
experts, dispensing worthless advice and baseless information. To have
these finger-in-the-air advisors rendered impotent might be very
dangerous indeed.

In article o.uk, Dave
Liquorice scribeth thus
On Fri, 23 Jul 2010 23:43:11 +0100, Spamlet wrote:

Malaria did used to be common in the UK

Was known as the Ague IIRC.

With so much air travel it is only a matter of time before malaria gets
back into our mossies.

Quite probably, but our climate is borderline for it. Might be a
problem down south but I'm not sure it (or the adult mozzies) can
over winter further north.

A friend who used to write some of the Rough Guides, had malaria, and
when it flared up, he had a job to convince the local hospital to
believe him:

Quite, this story is rather worrying:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10522909

The problem is it can stay low for such a long time after infection
with the parasite. All the same the repeated diagnosis of flu isn't
right, first time maybe but not second time even within a couple of
months flu just isn't that common. That should have raised a "hum,
there is something different here" flag and further questioning,
tests etc performed.



Theres the problem with "Flu like" symptoms. A friends wife phoned up
the doctors in the evening a few of years ago as she thought she had
something else in addition the aches and pains of typical Flu and was
told 2 x Paracetamol 3 times a day etc..

That following morning she got up with an extreme headache made her way
downstairs and then collapsed. Fortunately Mrs nosey neighbour across
the way had an item of their post delivered to her and just "happened"
to have a look thru a windowpane and saw her there collapsed.

They were pumping antibiotics into her on the way to hospital and that
wasn't that far away. Just lost most of her toes and a few fingers to
gangrene.

Meningitis strikes very quickly.

Almost a punch line to this sorry tale;!..

Her profession?..

A Hospital Nurse;!.......


And to add to that one of our sprogs some years ago .. they called from
school to say she was very unwell and described Headaches, stiff neck,
vomiting, aversion to light, seeming spaced out and not with it .. Told
the wife to take her to the A&E dept at the hospital right away got
there barged in front of the queue said we had a child with symptoms of
the above affliction, seen right away but a docs who said that we did
the right thing and they were about to take blood tests and then 10 mins
later she just wanted to go home and felt fine

Felt like a right chump but all in the A&E said thats fine, we did what
they would have done if it was a child of theirs!...
--
Tony Sayer

The Natural Philosopher wrote:
harry wrote:
On 22 July, 16:11, "john hamilton" wrote:
A mosquito has been in our bedroom for about a week, biting regularly at
night; when we are fast asleep, in the early hours. We have some
immovable
cupboards etc, that are ideal for it to hide behind.

Is there any way to entice it out, so we can deal with it?

It's probably bed bugs.
the female mosquito only bites the once.

how does it transmit malaria then?

They get shooed away before their tank is full.

--
LSMFT

Those who would give up Essential Liberty
to purchase a little Temporary Safety,
deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
Benjamin Franklin--

In article , Huge
scribeth thus
On 2010-07-24, tony sayer wrote:

And to add to that one of our sprogs some years ago .. they called from
school to say she was very unwell and described Headaches, stiff neck,
vomiting, aversion to light, seeming spaced out and not with it .. Told
the wife to take her to the A&E dept at the hospital right away got
there barged in front of the queue said we had a child with symptoms of
the above affliction, seen right away but a docs who said that we did
the right thing and they were about to take blood tests and then 10 mins
later she just wanted to go home and felt fine

Felt like a right chump but all in the A&E said thats fine, we did what
they would have done if it was a child of theirs!...

I think A&E would rather people came in, if they think they have something
serious. A couple of years ago, I thought I was having a heart attack -
palpitations, pain from the chest radiating into the shoulder, tachycardia
(rapid heart beat). We rushed down to A&E and they rushed me straight
past the queue and into a cubicle (the nurse *ran* down the corridor in
front of me to get a bed/ECG ready). They wired me to an ECG, and everything
came up flashing red, blood pressure, heart rate, WHY.

After about 40 minutes, we realised that I had indigestion and had probably
pulled a muscle in my shoulder. The rest was panic. They made me a cup of
tea. I kept apologising but they said that they'd much rather people with
"chest" pains came in and it proved to be indigestion than they stayed at
home and died of heart attacks ...


Yep I had bad ankle swelling which is a distinct symptom of heart
failure, doc seemed rather concerned and ordered up an Echocardiogram ..
come the dreaded day;..

Nurse practitioner who was doing it had a couple of "return to nursing"
ladies with her and was paying far more attention to her colleagues.
I just seemed to be a bystander in the procedure...

Did an ECG and told them "there you can put that in a medical textbook
as absolutely how it ought to look" then with her new machine better
then anything that went before, pronounced "here we have a hart in fine
condition with no enlargement and murmur" all of which I'm supposed to
have had...

And finally she just said, all done you can go, and packed up her
machine leaving me rather bemused..

Asked her, so no failure then and what was causing the swelling?..

Just reduce your blood pressure meds a little said she.. which oddly
enough cleared that quite well.......


--
Tony Sayer

On Fri, 23 Jul 2010 23:18:22 +0100, "Spamlet"
wrote:


"Ian B" wrote in message
...

Indeed, the uk Natural History Museum (where I sent samples from our garden)
is part of the world wide project to find ways of eradicating the simuliids.
One of the dangers is that, near water, they do form swarms large enough to
cause cattle to stampede to try and escape them. In our garden they are
silent and almost invisible in the evening, and they have no trouble biting
through clothing, and leave lumps like new muscles that ache for several
days. They are supposed to rely on running water to breed, but our garden
is on a hillside half a mile from the nearest stream.

Only way to beat them is not to go out there at dusk.

I agree with you aboit the sandflies. I think I have them in my
garden. No bites all day but come dusk...

On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 23:53:30 +0100, "Spamlet"
wrote:


"Billy" wrote in message
...

Yep, I'll second that: the only bedroom wall for me is smooth and painted
white. Even then the buggers are so thin you don't know they are there
until you turn the light off and, shortly after, hear the whine in your ear.
Turn it back on and they vanish instantly.

They zero in on CO2, but I've also heard they like sweaty feet too. I doubt
if they would be enticed by either light or flypaper: on the contrary, they
hide till it gets dark. When you do try to swat them, come from behind or v
slowly from above, with something wet. Or, if you don't mind the noise, a
vacuum cleaner with the 'behind the sofa' attachment on is favourite. Get
them first time or you will be up all night.

The ones that sit with their back legs up and the body at an angle to the
surface are the malaria carrying ones, and, yes, we do have them in the UK.

I've generally found them on the wall somewhere nearby. I don't think
they hide away anywhere. They do need a bit of looking for sometimes
though. It doesn't sound like mosquitos in this case, though, unless
there is the tell-tale whine.

Spamlet wrote:

Malaria did used to be common in the UK and there are stories of men from
the marshes having had to have many wives as they tended to die fairly
quickly after being taken home. Â*The environment agency is busily
surveying on the marshes - as seen on recent tv prog - and mincing up
mossies by the hundred looking for signs of malarial DNA. Â*With so much
air travel it is only a matter of time before malaria gets back into our
mossies.

In the early 50s our wet heath was "fogged" with insecticide (we used to see
how close we could get to the land rover by creeping up in the fog), at the
time my mother said they were killing the gnats. My father was one of the
servicemen that returned from Burma, without any apparent infection but in
retrospect I guess there must have been a significant reservoir of the
disease in the returning servicemen.

Later the accountant at work in 76 returned with malaria, from Zimbabwe, he
used to sit huddled in a blanket, sweating and drinking whisky-milk
cocktail till it subsided.



AJH

On Jul 24, 12:21 pm, "Wallace" wrote:
"Matty F" wrote in message

...

On Jul 24, 1:28 am, "Wallace" wrote:

All I can tell you is at our hunting place when we had mosquitoes indoors
we
turned out the lights, turned on the bug zapper, and in a few minutes
they
were all zapped. You do what you want.

see also:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2688798/

OK then, I'll always believe an actual test over what some "expert"
says.

Wow, you could knock me over with a feather! I've never seen such a reply
on the web! Good for you man. I'm not kidding. A thumbs up for you!

All I've seen is the digging in of heels and the name calling and restating
what was said so as to call the other a liar and bolster one's own position.

I am really awestruck! Speechless!

You have made my day. Unless you are pulling my leg . . .

Cheers!

I don't care who is right and who is wrong. I just want the correct
answer.
I had seen a number of websites that say mosquitoes are not attracted
to UV, and nothing to say the opposite. When I next see mosquitoes
I'll drag out my zapper and see if it works.

andrew wrote:

Later the accountant at work in 76 returned with malaria, from Zimbabwe, he
used to sit huddled in a blanket, sweating and drinking whisky-milk
cocktail till it subsided.

I've had it. No fun at all.

"Matty F" wrote in message
...
On Jul 24, 12:21 pm, "Wallace" wrote:
"Matty F" wrote in message

...

On Jul 24, 1:28 am, "Wallace" wrote:

All I can tell you is at our hunting place when we had mosquitoes
indoors
we
turned out the lights, turned on the bug zapper, and in a few minutes
they
were all zapped. You do what you want.

see also:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2688798/

OK then, I'll always believe an actual test over what some "expert"
says.

Wow, you could knock me over with a feather! I've never seen such a
reply
on the web! Good for you man. I'm not kidding. A thumbs up for you!

All I've seen is the digging in of heels and the name calling and
restating
what was said so as to call the other a liar and bolster one's own
position.

I am really awestruck! Speechless!

You have made my day. Unless you are pulling my leg . . .

Cheers!

I don't care who is right and who is wrong. I just want the correct
answer.
I had seen a number of websites that say mosquitoes are not attracted
to UV, and nothing to say the opposite. When I next see mosquitoes
I'll drag out my zapper and see if it works.

I gave you links that say the opposite.

On Jul 26, 1:02 am, "Wallace" wrote:
"Matty F" wrote in message

...



On Jul 24, 12:21 pm, "Wallace" wrote:
"Matty F" wrote in message

...

On Jul 24, 1:28 am, "Wallace" wrote:

All I can tell you is at our hunting place when we had mosquitoes
indoors
we
turned out the lights, turned on the bug zapper, and in a few minutes
they
were all zapped. You do what you want.

see also:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2688798/

OK then, I'll always believe an actual test over what some "expert"
says.

Wow, you could knock me over with a feather! I've never seen such a
reply
on the web! Good for you man. I'm not kidding. A thumbs up for you!

All I've seen is the digging in of heels and the name calling and
restating
what was said so as to call the other a liar and bolster one's own
position.

I am really awestruck! Speechless!

You have made my day. Unless you are pulling my leg . . .

Cheers!

I don't care who is right and who is wrong. I just want the correct
answer.
I had seen a number of websites that say mosquitoes are not attracted
to UV, and nothing to say the opposite. When I next see mosquitoes
I'll drag out my zapper and see if it works.

I gave you links that say the opposite.

"I had seen a number of websites" means, before you gave the links.

"Matty F" wrote in message
...
On Jul 26, 1:02 am, "Wallace" wrote:
"Matty F" wrote in message

...



On Jul 24, 12:21 pm, "Wallace" wrote:
"Matty F" wrote in message

...

On Jul 24, 1:28 am, "Wallace" wrote:

All I can tell you is at our hunting place when we had mosquitoes
indoors
we
turned out the lights, turned on the bug zapper, and in a few
minutes
they
were all zapped. You do what you want.

see also:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2688798/

OK then, I'll always believe an actual test over what some "expert"
says.

Wow, you could knock me over with a feather! I've never seen such a
reply
on the web! Good for you man. I'm not kidding. A thumbs up for you!

All I've seen is the digging in of heels and the name calling and
restating
what was said so as to call the other a liar and bolster one's own
position.

I am really awestruck! Speechless!

You have made my day. Unless you are pulling my leg . . .

Cheers!

I don't care who is right and who is wrong. I just want the correct
answer.
I had seen a number of websites that say mosquitoes are not attracted
to UV, and nothing to say the opposite. When I next see mosquitoes
I'll drag out my zapper and see if it works.

I gave you links that say the opposite.

"I had seen a number of websites" means, before you gave the links.


ah. got it. thanks.