to think that mosquitos should not be a thing in the UK?

[DonMosquiote]

I've lived in England for many, many years and may have the odd midge bite. This year for the first time ever, there have been mosquitos - yes actual fuck off mosquitos with the high pitched wine and everythign - in the garden and as it turns out in the house.

This is why I am posting. One of the bastards got in my bedroom unnoticed and had some kind of major banquet on my upper hip when I was sleeping without a sheet. I don't know if it's a pile of bites or a bite on a bite on a bite - but it's a bad scene. It's so itchy and the centre (which is massive) is virtually hard with the multiple hive reaction. The sporners would wet themselves with excitement to see it.

How did this happen?

I've never known mosquitos in the UK. certainly not in suburbs.

As a realted qu - how can I find the culprit? I've tried a light on a night to lure it out but no joy. Where would it hide in a bed room

The UK has specific native mosquitoes!! Not sure how you've escaped all of this time - you must have looked tasty recently 😂

Have you got cream for the bite? I'm a terrible itcher but just tend to slap them and smother in cream + cover up so I can't get to them.

Do you think it's perhaps had it's feast and flown off?

Where I live in central London, we've been getting occasional mosquitoes for at least the last decade. It's very annoying. (I blame the bloody pond one of my neighbours built). I use a plug-in ultrasonic thing to get rid of them.

I've got absolutely bastarding loads of the blood sucking fuckers.

I also have two bins of water outside full of daphnia... and mosquito larvae, for my fish.

So it is entirely my own fault - however I do also have a garden full of swifts and swallows (well, above!) eating them... plus everything else that eats mosquitos which is quite a lot of things.

You’ve done well to escape for so long. British mosquitos are definitely very common.

In our last house you couldnt out the light on after dark with windows open anywhere in the house or there would be hundreds of them within seconds - I'm guessing one of our neighbours had a pond. Eventually I had to put Velcro nets over the windows.

Really? We've never had them here ever - sort of central England/south ish.

Do you think it's perhaps had it's feast and flown off?

No. It's crimes have escalated.

first it was an ankle bite. then an knee. both overnight.

i recklessly was sheet less and it fucking got stuck in.

it's gross. several bites very very close together to make one enormous lumperoo.

I want to mash it into a pulp but first I have to find it.

Yes - have lots of Anithisan laddled on for the itching but doesn't help with the hivey lump on lump on lump.

I'm in Central London and had to start sleeping with the window shut last summer when it was really hot and muggy after waking up one morning to find my ankle all bitten.

I've been to Thailand, Mexico and various other hot muggy places, and these were far and away the worst bites I've ever had (and took longest to go).

Use the back of a hot teaspoon on each bite. Kills the itch.

i'm going to buy some of this for water sources.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B09MTGB8HG/

I’ve been bitten terribly this year and I never usually get any bites. I’m not even out in the evenings they are literally in the house I’ve killed so many in the last 3 weeks

You need dh if you have mosquitoes. He's so tasty they won't even look at anyone else when he's about. It's the best anti-midge method.

Oh don’t say this. I’m currently inFrance being eaten alive by the bastards. We leave for home tomorrow and one of the things that I am looking forward to is the lack of the little feckers.

We have always had them where I live in the south east. I remember getting bites fairly often as a kid.

Historically, malaria was endemic in England. Was known as ague.

Had them in Worcestershire as long as I've lived here which is nearly twenty years.

Some years are worse than others. One year they were so bad, you couldn't buy antihistamines anywhere,

Lidl sell plug in blue lights - currently in the junk aisles. I have one at the top of the stairs from a few years ago and a new one in my kitchen. We're overrun with the bastards because it's so hot and everything is open in the evening 😂

I've also loaded the water feature with chlorine today and I'll treat drains etc if it ever rains again.

We've always had mosquitos. I don't tend to get bitten by them, yet when I'm abroad I get bitten to shreds and I'm highly allergic.

Never seen a mosquito in NI. Not saying there aren't any, but I've only ever experienced them abroad. They absolutely love me. They probably give NI a swerve - we've enough bloody problems!

We've always had them here in Kent but this year they are incredibly large, I've noticed.
I had a student nurse do a blood test on me last week and I've ended up with a huge bruise inside my elbow and last night the mozzies were desperate to get at the bruise, they must have sensed it. It quite freaked me out.

I use a hairdryer. A hot spoon seems much safer!

Gnats have always been around…..

I've got the intoxicating waft of my citronella incense sticks burning in my garden - not sue it helps but it smells nice and reminds me of Anjuna Beach C.2001

Hot cross bun the fuckers!

I have been bitten a few times this past week while sleeping so now deet myself up good and proper. North Kent

I’m some kind of bug buffet - they always go for me and I react really badly to the bites: big blisters, bright red then purple reaction marks. I look like a plague victim!

At this time of year I spray myself and the bedsheets with bug repellent every night before I get into bed but even now I’ve got a bite on one knee and 5 bites across my left foot. The reaction is so bad this time I’ve got a big swollen patch across my foot which is red and warm to the touch. Dr has given me antibiotics to ward off anything sinister and advised ice packs and antihistamines.

How have you avoided them for so long? I have ended up on antibiotics three times in the last 4 years because of the little fuckers. They love me but for the most part leave my DP alone. Just common garden mosquitos, large town in the South East.

Last year they native bastards got me near my elbow and as you can see, it is quite the reaction. Believe it or not, it got worse.