Eaten Alive in Oak Park

Queen-Mise

Do not go walking in Oak Park at the moment. It is dangerous, I went out for a walk yesterday morning, and ended up with about 15 mosquitoes (I presume) bites. My legs, arms & neck are badly bitten.

Be careful there at the moment.

Villain

Same last year, big oversight on the Council's part, not saying they can fix it but they should have thought about the issue before they went and setup walks etc.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

*warning, if you go outside you might encounter nature*

Queen-Mise

it wouldn't be possible to fix the problem would it. The Monty Python sketch is coming into my head of the mosquito hunters though:D:D:D

They really could do with some warning signs though, it is severe out there

Villain

Princess Innocent Knickers wrote: »

*warning, if you go outside you might encounter nature*

I don't know where you live but I can assure the ammount of mosquitoes in Oak Park is not normal nature, I live in a rural area and I when I was younger I spent most summers walking through fields and forests and I have never seen anything like the problem in Oak Park.

Its due to stagnant water and the fact that the area's where the trails are hadn't been disturbed in years, it was the main front page headline on the Nationalist last summer.

Queen-Mise

Villian is right - a lot of people ended in in Kilkenny hospital because of the number of bites & reactions to them.

I was in the sun for two weeks, in a mosquito area, I was bitten worse in ten minutes in Oak Park than two weeks in the sun.

IvyTheTerrible

Tesco in Carlow sell insect repellant, it works well. If you have reactions, you can get steroid cream over the counter in any pharmacist to bring down allergic reactions (used both, and both work).

It's July, there's a lake in Oak Park, and it's humid. You're going to get midges.

Villain

Of course you are but have you been there? The ammount of them is unreal.

Queen-Mise

They are not midges, they are mosquitoes (in Ireland????).

The place is a health risk, I didn't realize how bad it was, last year I avoided it. I won't be setting foot in it again until October or November.

Fishtits

Mozzies, Midges may be an irritant, at least here we don't get Malaria from them...

mire up on anti midge/mosquito stuff & forget about it.

Minor detail IMHO...

foggy_lad

its exactly the same along the barrow track with midges etc. the earth is polluted enough without trying to erradicate one of the lower creatures on the food pyramid! without them everything else would not exist!