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pricey

Joined: 28 Feb 2005
Posts: 6444

Posted: Tue Oct 09, 07 7:35 pm Post subject:
It's cos I killed All the Spiders

NannyP

Joined: 26 Aug 2005
Posts: 118
Location: Vienne, France

Posted: Wed Oct 10, 07 3:27 pm Post subject:
It's a little damp plus mild.

Blue Sky

Joined: 30 Jan 2005
Posts: 7658
Location: France

Posted: Wed Oct 10, 07 7:04 pm Post subject:
Thanks NannyP I knew there had to be a sensible answer. Next question ... What is the best remedy for ridding them?

Treacodactyl
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 25795
Location: Jumping on the bandwagon of opportunism

Posted: Wed Oct 10, 07 7:08 pm Post subject:
Witchcraft.

alisjs

Joined: 23 Jun 2006
Posts: 1497
Location: Conwy

Posted: Wed Oct 10, 07 7:12 pm Post subject:

Quote:

It's cos I killed All the Spiders

get more spiders!

pricey

Joined: 28 Feb 2005
Posts: 6444

Posted: Wed Oct 10, 07 7:55 pm Post subject:

alisjs wrote:

Quote:

It's cos I killed All the Spiders

get more spiders!

I can post some if you like

sean
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 42219
Location: North Devon

Posted: Wed Oct 10, 07 7:58 pm Post subject:

Simon wrote:

Next question ... What is the best remedy for ridding them?

The 'spirales anti-moustiques' wot they sell in French supermarkets/garden centres seem to work pretty well.

gingerwelly

Joined: 08 Dec 2005
Posts: 419
Location: Wales ...in cardiff at the mo but from mid wales

Posted: Wed Oct 10, 07 9:49 pm Post subject:
i got attacked by a mozzie in Cardiff train station on sunday night .........7 bites on my legs ...Never been bitten in the UK before.

Contadino

Joined: 28 Sep 2007
Posts: 190
Location: Puglia, Italia

Posted: Thu Oct 11, 07 12:46 am Post subject:
For the last fortnight, we've been fending off mozzies the size of spitfires. I've never seen anything like them. Funnily enough, it all seemed to start the night the wife and I were discussing putting the mozzy net away for the winter. Glad we decided against it.

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 46249
Location: yes

Posted: Thu Oct 11, 07 1:02 am Post subject:
stuff warming the black flies have taken sherwood

madmonk

Joined: 08 May 2006
Posts: 835

Posted: Thu Oct 11, 07 12:45 pm Post subject:

Simon wrote:

Thanks NannyP

I knew there had to be a sensible answer.

Next question ... What is the best remedy for ridding them?

ME 109s apparently not as good as the spitfire but almost on par to a mosquito

hardworkinghippy

Joined: 01 Jan 2005
Posts: 1110
Location: Bourrou South West France

Posted: Thu Oct 11, 07 1:02 pm Post subject:
We've got goldfish in all our water butts. They eat the larve and we don't get a lot of mozzies - possibly because of that.

Contadino

Joined: 28 Sep 2007
Posts: 190
Location: Puglia, Italia

Posted: Fri Oct 12, 07 10:50 am Post subject:
That sounds like a great idea. Do they need anything to keep them happy, such as oxygenating plants or some such? Do they have to be a specific type of goldfish?

Green Rosie

Joined: 13 May 2007
Posts: 10498
Location: Calvados, France

Posted: Sun Oct 14, 07 6:32 am Post subject:
We are inundated too but they do make for good late might antics - 2 slightly drunk ladies, 2 fly swatters and a lot of dead mozzies to clear off the walls in the following morning. As for getting bitten - OH, myself and older boy only get the very occassional bite - younger boy, bless me, gets massacred every might unlell I smother him in Mozzie Guard. WHY??

Andrea

Joined: 02 May 2005
Posts: 2260
Location: Portugal

Posted: Sun Oct 14, 07 11:02 am Post subject:

hardworkinghippy wrote:

We've got goldfish in all our water butts.

What an excellent idea. I don't suppose they'd like it much in our greywater tanks though.

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