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Angry midges

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omar, 13.07.2007 10:30

Fanatics! weep.gif And midges can't bite anything off, because they don't have a gnawing mouthpiece.

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13.07.2007 14:26, алекс 2611

Fanatics! weep.gif And midges can't bite anything off, because they don't have a gnawing mouthpiece.


They don't have a machine, and they turn their legs into something they don't know what. I look-I'm scared myself. Half-centimeter horseflies do not leave such wounds.
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14.07.2007 0:33, Vladimirrr

They take a bite. I saw it myself - a fly sat on my arm, flew away, and blood began to flow from the wound. This is clearly not a puncture, but a puncture. And why does one fly make so many bites in a row if it doesn't eat skin? Creepy thing. smile.gif

14.07.2007 10:54, RippeR

They didn't look well.. Flies can't take a bite.. they have sucking, sometimes piercing-sucking apparatuses.. otherwise they wouldn't be flies at all

14.07.2007 16:30, Sparrow

Hmm... in fact, they have extensions at the end of the oral apparatus that can work as small holes - the same Musca domestica has such a

14.07.2007 17:39, RippeR

grater not wire cutters smile.gif

14.07.2007 18:03, Tigran Oganesov

It's time to be clear. Midges cut the skin with powerful, jagged mandibles, rather than piercing it like mosquitoes, so the wound is rougher.
Comparing the muscoid proboscis of higher flies with the oral apparatus of primitive midges is not worth it - they are radically different. A muscoid proboscis is an acquisition comparable to the appearance of a complete transformation. It is multifunctional, it can be used for both licking and scraping, as well as piercing. Extensions at the end of the proboscis are called labellum.
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14.07.2007 23:05, Sparrow

Actually everything was superfluous except for the presence of jagged mandibles in midges) but now it is clear why they leave such damage.

17.07.2007 0:16, Guest

Scratching or biting, what's the difference, the main thing is the result. smile.gif In short, harmful flies. Mosquitoes don't even get under your clothes, but these are just on the road, like fleas. And the repellent doesn't work on them. and when there are a lot of them, you can't even brush them off. I used to wonder how people are afraid to go to the taiga in the summer because of some midges there! smile.gif Now I understand. smile.gif

17.07.2007 1:08, RippeR

Yes, when I was in the Murmansk region-there were always such flies eating everyone, except for mesmile.gif, Many went as if after a fight, mostly their ears were torn, but other parts of the body also suffered smile.gif

18.07.2007 0:11, Vladimirrr

There are plenty of them near St. Petersburg, too. smile.gif It is interesting that they appear somehow sporadically and for a long time.

18.07.2007 22:10, алекс 2611

There are plenty of them near St. Petersburg, too. smile.gif It is interesting that they appear somehow sporadically and for a long time.


And most importantly, it is very local: in Lembolovo they almost ate it, but in Kirilovsky there is practically none...

19.07.2007 0:24, Vladimirrr

Yes, it is true, they are not everywhere. According to my observations, they like wet swampy terrain...

19.07.2007 1:10, RippeR

We're getting lost in all the topics.. it's probably because of the heat smile.gif

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