HUGE Mosquitoes!!

[Goatboy]

Sorry. I didn't remember the bit about your fish allergy. To be honest though, I don't really know what a cleg is.

Have a look HERE Santaman. I hate those things.

 

[santaman2000]

Have a look HERE Santaman. I hate those things.

Ah. Yeah unfortunately we have a few species of those also.

 

[Toddy]

Everything fishy I ever ate, except for wee brown trout I guddled from a burn (over 35 years ago) and fried in butter within five minutes of being out of the water. I caught them to prove I could, and I only ate a tiny wee bite of them, the rest were devoured by my camping friends.
I was still at the teenage stage of trying not to be as sensitive as an Aunt and Great Aunt to too many things. ( really makes me wonder sometimes, just what biological advantage this allergic thing offers we do live long though, most of the family reach their mid nineties, and two have been over 100) The worst I expected was just to throw up and come out in hives, but I was fine. Tried salmon a fortnight later and was violently ill

Clegs are horse flies with a bite like a red hot poker

M

 

[Toddy]

Yeah, that's the blighter

http://www.uknature.co.uk/H.pluvialis-info.html

M

 

[copper_head]

Yeah, that's the blighter

http://www.uknature.co.uk/H.pluvialis-info.html

M

Nasty bleeders they are too, I have a scar on my face from a horsefly bite I got when I was 8 .

 

[Toddy]

My Grandpa had one on his cheek, white and round and sunken like someone had burned a redhot 1/2inch ball bearing into the flesh. When I was very little and sitting on his lap and reaching up to touch it, I asked what made the mark. He clenched his teeth around his pipe and said, "A durty big cleeg", now I have to carry an epi pen in case I get bitten and react too badly

M

 

[DavidJT]

Those Mozzies look so big that if you slapped them, they'd slap you back!

At least they'd wake you up at night if they were flying around, prob sound like a chain saw.