Flying Ants and slow bluebottles.
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puppylover
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The ants are laying eggs now and its horrible - went for a walk with the dog last night and on the old tram tracks where we live they have turned it into a bit of a nature walk - literally we must have had about 50 flying fat ants stuck to us as we walked through a swarm of them - quite foul, I felt physically sick trying to get the little buggers off our clothing - I had to go straight in the bath on getting home in case they were living on me or in my hair..... uuuurrrggghhhhh
mambobirdette
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puppylover said:The ants are laying eggs now and its horrible - went for a walk with the dog last night and on the old tram tracks where we live they have turned it into a bit of a nature walk - literally we must have had about 50 flying fat ants stuck to us as we walked through a swarm of them - quite foul, I felt physically sick trying to get the little buggers off our clothing - I had to go straight in the bath on getting home in case they were living on me or in my hair..... uuuurrrggghhhhh
And did you have any floating in the bath afterwards??
Morbyd
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Have you also noticed there are a lot of them this year? It seems they're hanging out on the west side of the island. We saw tons (and the missus and a couple of our friends all got stung) in places like Cala d'Hort, another beach nearby, and also a bit south of Atlantis. Didn't see any on the south side (PdB, Cala Jondal).Dr Mick said:
Dr Mick said:For me jellyfish are the most annoying pest here in Ibiza. We don't seem to get too many mosquitos where I live.
The office has a few enormous cockroaches that don't like it if I'm there at night. I have to kill them with a flip flop.
Flippin Medusa ruined my first day at Sa Trinxa, really wanted to swim.
They were gone a few days later though. 
Dr Mick said:For me jellyfish are the most annoying pest here in Ibiza. We don't seem to get too many mosquitos where I live.
The office has a few enormous cockroaches that don't like it if I'm there at night. I have to kill them with a flip flop.
In mainland we have mosquito (little flies) and in Ibiza there are Muscats (big flies). I litterally got eaten by muscats in Ibiza and Formentera
cockroaches leave their hideout if it's too hot
Beckiboo
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Urgh dont even get me started on mosquitos!! I am allergic to them and come up in big lumps which turn into blisters if I'm bitten. I've never been bitten in Ibiza before until this year! I found three of the little buggers in our wardrobe and wouldn't rest until I'd splatted each one!
God knows how Im going to survive travelling... I'm going to turn into one big ball of pus!
God knows how Im going to survive travelling... I'm going to turn into one big ball of pus!
Beckiboo said:Urgh dont even get me started on mosquitos!! I am allergic to them and come up in big lumps which turn into blisters if I'm bitten. I've never been bitten in Ibiza before until this year! I found three of the little buggers in our wardrobe and wouldn't rest until I'd splatted each one!
God knows how Im going to survive travelling... I'm going to turn into one big ball of pus!
- where are you going travelling? mosquitos are horrible but I found max strength DEET on holiday, although it melts plastic and probably gives you and the environment cancer, works pretty well. They always find a spot though :x (between my toes the buggers!)also, avoid bananas - mosquitos like it if you eat them for some reason
Beckiboo
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zarbtron said:
also, avoid bananas - mosquitos like it if you eat them for some reason
Fiji, Oz, NZ, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand and India. Mosquito hotspots I know
I'm just going to take all the drugs I can to fend them off. They seem to love the tase of me for some reason 
Beckiboo said:Fiji, Oz, NZ, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand and India. Mosquito hotspots I know
there was a news article the other day actually about how some people just attract insects that bite and others don't - based on pheromones or something
I once slept in a tent with the door open (ok, passed out in a drunken stupor) with someone else, I woke up with over 100 bites (in things like lines up my body as they crawled up biting as they went) whilst my friend had about 3. :x .