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Mosquito's

  • 13-07-2009 11:06am
    #1
    TheBandit
    Closed Accounts Posts: 304 ✭✭


    I was bitten by some form of beast up at the bohernabreena resevoir. It was roughly 2cm long by half a cm wide. It looked like a cross between a moth and a mosquito(mothish type wings). It drew blood and i want to find out what it is. Does anybody know a gallery of mosquitos that can be found in ireland


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  • #2
    DrIndy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,461 ✭✭✭DrIndy


    I have had some horrific bites from something larger than a mosquito and much more persistent - don't know what it was - but had it in donegal.

    Unlike midges or mosquitos - it wouldn't fly away when you waved the bitten limb around and had to be squashed.

    wonder what it was?


  • #3
    L.B.G
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1 ✭L.B.G


    ive found two mosquitos in my room so far and im wondering if its poosible that i could catch somthing if ne one knows please answer my query?


  • #4
    Delancey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,451 ✭✭✭Delancey


    L.B.G wrote: »
    ive found two mosquitos in my room so far and im wondering if its poosible that i could catch somthing if ne one knows please answer my query?

    Rabies would be one plus a whole raft of other infections like typhoid , anthrax , smallpox , cholera , H.I.V. , the list goes on and on..........

    Ha ha :D , only joking L.B.G. - I've never heard of anyone catching any disease in Ireland from a mosquito - none of the mosquito breeds ( if that is the correct term to use ) in Ireland transmit malaria which is far and away the biggest threat these insects represent.
    I think you have nil to worry about.


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