I am not the only person who is covered with bug bites.
Bonnie told me that David is also covered with bites. I offered to compare my bites to his bites. He declined. In fact, he was horrified. I will have to find out why.
I did go out to a University of Florida website to figure out a better name than no-see-um bites, which is what I have called those bites all of the time I have lived in British Columbia.
Here is a picture of how small they are, compared to a U.S. dime and pencil point.
Bonnie told me that David is also covered with bites. I offered to compare my bites to his bites. He declined. In fact, he was horrified. I will have to find out why.
I did go out to a University of Florida website to figure out a better name than no-see-um bites, which is what I have called those bites all of the time I have lived in British Columbia.
Here is a picture of how small they are, compared to a U.S. dime and pencil point.
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| Culicoides furens shown next to a U.S. dime and pencil point to demonstrate the relative size of this adult biting midge species. Photograph by Roxanne Connelly, Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, University of Florida. |
If you come to visit this year, you will get a chance to experience them ... in person.
The website says that your only defense ... maybe ...will be a bug spray that contains DEET.
Arta
i HATE those things (no matter what you call them!)
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