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We leave home on Saturday, heading for Italy and an approx. 5-week tour, leaving Dover on Monday morning. Heard this week about "tiger mosquitos" but have seen no previous mention of the beasts on MHF. Has anyone had experience of them and can offer any comments or advice.
There were a few scare stories about these a couple of years ago. They are called tiger mosquitos because they have rather attractive stripes (if you are in to that kind of thing and bother to look before swatting it). Yes they can potentially transmit a few nasty diseases but first the local mosquito population has to be infected with the disease before you can be infected by a bite. There are no recent reports of nasty diseases from these in Italy so don't worry.
The usual precautions about using insect repellent to avoid getting bitten applies - mainly because there are lots of biting nasties in the warm moist air around the Italian lakes and constant itching can ruin your holiday.
Quite so Chris, but the little swine have a really nasty bite, and they itch like the very devil.
Best to hide indoors at dusk, with the mosquito blinds drawn and the spray can at the ready.
The further South you go the worse they are. Puglia is one of their favourite hunting grounds, and they have been known to carry off and devour fully grown alsatian dogs!
Quite so Chris, but the little swine have a really nasty bite, and they itch like the very devil.
Best to hide indoors at dusk, with the mosquito blinds drawn and the spray can at the ready.
The further South you go the worse they are. Puglia is one of their favourite hunting grounds, and they have been known to carry off and devour fully grown alsatian dogs!
I exaggerate only slightly!!
Dave
Only problem is that Tiger mosquitos are day biters, so hiding indoors at dusk is no good if you are trying to avoid them but it will help you avoid several of their cousins.
Insect repellent at all times is the only way to go - alsation dogs don't tend to wear insecent repellent which might explain their casualties
Oh and don't forget - as with all mossies it is the females that are the nasty vicious biting bloodsuckers, the males are peaceful vegetarians living on nectar
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If we are talking about the active in daylight, striped Aedes aegypti mosquito, I have very unpleasant personal experience of this blighter from whom I and my daughter contracted Dengue Fever. But this was in Koh Samui Thailand. At that time I recorded the event in my (now neglected) blog. http://baanbophut.blogspot.com/search/label/Dengue
Been bitten by these in the garden; resulting in severe swelling round the cheeks and eyes. Autan insect spray doesn't seem to keep them away; but a yellow wristband that I bought on a visit to Gibraltar does. Can't remember the brand name of it though; and it's not actually impressed on the band itself.
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eddied
Three years ago, at Guarda on Lake Guarda, I was bitten by something that did not go the usual course- ie itchy, swollen lumpy-to-weeping-blister type bite but made me feel terrible for several days. My arm came up like a balloon and I had severe headaches and it felt as if every joint in my body was being stretched. I also had a high-ish temperature.
With hindsight- and access to the symptoms of a tiger mosquito bite- I wonder if that was one though there were no warnings of that type of mozzie then.
I got bitten by one of these on my forearm when we were in Bordeaux earlier this year.
My wife saw it on my arm but neglected to tell me!
Unlike a normal mossie bite it came up like a egg and I eventually had pain down the back of my hand and into my fingers.
As a result took some antihistamine tablets, which did the trick.
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I am not usually affected by mosquito bites BUT I got a bite from one of these last year just west of Venice when we stopped for a cuppa, It was nasty, I have never known itching like it and a lump came up like an egg just close to my wrist, Not very nice at all.
I used a lot of E45 itch relief which certainly helped.
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Been bitten by these in the garden; resulting in severe swelling round the cheeks and eyes. Autan insect spray doesn't seem to keep them away; but a yellow wristband that I bought on a visit to Gibraltar does. Can't remember the brand name of it though; and it's not actually impressed on the band itself.
