Re: Mosquitos in Finland during summer
On Thu, 2005-05-05 at 19:38, Christian Perrier wrote:
> To my knowledge, mosquitos are being quite rude in various places in
> Scandinavia and especially Finland (they are also well know to be very
> aggressive in so-called Baltic countries as well).
>
> My own son has hard knowledge of them after two weeks spent near
> Rovaniemi. He bringed back two quite interesting legs (OK, I know that
> Rovaniemi is quite far from HEL...but HEL area has lakes too..:-))).
I can attest to the rudeness and SIZE of the mosquitoes in Troms,
Northern Norway, too. However, this has little bearing on the size,
numbers and attitude of insects you encounter along the coast, much
further south. The weather, the vegetation and the fauna are _very_
different.
In the polar region the mosquitoes are big, and very active during
the short summer. Not all of the mosquito-eating birds migrate that
far North, so there are fewer predators to keep the bugs at bay.
If I were trying to come up with something in the same ballpark,
I would warn people about the few brown bears in Scandinavia, based
on experiences with polar bears on Spitsbergen. Technically they
are both bears, and brown bears are not totally harmless.
I'm kidding. We don't carry arms to protect us against brown bears.
Not in the city, at least. Are there moose around Helsinki, BTW?
Hill-badgers or slope-wolves¹, maybe? Especially when drunk people
are around ...
¹<http://home.online.no/~mmelsaet/ulv.html>
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Herman Robak
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