Weronika Patena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Ah, and they [windows] all have those insect nets,
In Michigan (very recently "wet, rainy Michigan), if you didn't have window screens, you'd be eaten alive at night by mosquitoes. Even with the screens, sometimes the mosquito-whining from outside the screens drives me crazy, and if one of the little devils has sneaked into the house, into the bedroom, it has to die before I can sleep. Does the US really have that many more flying, stinging insects than elsewhere in the world? Insects the screens keep out (in Michigan, I'm sure the list varies by area of the US): horseflies, blackflies, mosquitoes, wasps, hornets, various native bees, honey bees. Non-stinging but annoying to have blundering around: crane flies (or "mosquito hawks", although they don't eat mosquitoes, unfortunately), all kinds of house flies. And nothing keeps out a "no-see-um", a tiny little biting fly that can walk right through window screen mesh. The loggers who came here to lumber off our white pine forests came up with folk tales about the mosquitoes. One I dimly remember has a logger running from a cloud of mosquitoes. He hides under a big iron cooking pot, only to have the mosquitoes sting through it. He hammers each stinger over as it pierces the iron, and eventually the whole swarm is caught, whereupon they fly away, pot and all. Every state I've ever heard of with lots of mosquitoes, jokingly says the mosquito is the "state bird". Lynn Carpenter in SW Michigan, USA alwen at i2k dot com To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
