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Well if you fancy a spot of Catfish or Carp fishing on the Ebro, just make sure you take plenty of insect repellent:

"A plague of black flies has prompted authorities in north-eastern Spain to issue warnings on TV and fliers advising people to cover up and avoid riverside areas in the early morning and dusk.

The insect has been quickly breeding - and sucking blood - along the rivers and reservoirs of Catalonia and Aragon, causing alarm in small towns.

 

Only two to three millimetres long, the fly is much smaller and harder to spot than most mosquitoes, but its voracious bite sent more than 2,000 people to hospital last year in Catalonia alone. Its vigorous jaw, which releases a cocktail of chemicals, can produce allergic reactions.

 

"If the mosquito is a neurosurgeon that bites with a probe, the black fly is a butcher that scratches the skin and makes you bleed," Raul Escosa, member of an Ebro river environmental board, told El Pais.

"We had to take my 18-year-old daughter to the dermatologist and the allergist because she had a dozen swellings of eight to 10 centimetres," said Jesus Llop, a town council member in the town of Mequinenza.

 

The black fly, an umbrella term for several Simulium species, was first detected in the region in 1997, and it has been making its annoying presence increasingly felt. Unlike the mosquito, it breeds in clean river water. Regional experts believe the current outbreak stems from improvements in water quality and new irrigation channels, which created a new habitat.

 

The insect injects an anaesthetic, an anti-clotting agent and a vasodilator into the skin of its host, who belatedly notices the damage after the fly has moved on. In Switzerland an attacking swarm reportedly killed a calf."

 

From today's Guardian

 

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After a certain age, if you don't wake up aching in every joint, you are probably dead.

 

 

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i'l stick to folkestone thanks :D

Believe NOTHING anyones says or writes unless you witness it yourself and even then your eyes can deceive you

None of this "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" crap it just means i have at least two enemies!

 

There is only one opinion i listen to ,its mine and its ALWAYS right even when its wrong

 

Its far easier to curse the darkness than light one candle

 

Mathew 4:19

Grangers law : anything i say will  turn out the opposite or not happen at all!

Life insurance? you wont enjoy a penny!

"To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical." Thomas Jefferson

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we had some of that about two weeks ago tony......close doors and windows when you go out and spray all around the room with a bug spray..when its time for bed make sure youve got the plug in switched on.

they hurt when they bite for sure, but i didnt get a reaction as i was wacking them as soon as i felt the bite.

got the plugins going straight away then.

cheers dave :thumbs:

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why not make screen doors and windows ,i made some for our place to stop the flies from the cattle in the adjoining fields ,the mesh door self closes and so fine even midges cant get through ,far better than breathing in noxious fumes

Believe NOTHING anyones says or writes unless you witness it yourself and even then your eyes can deceive you

None of this "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" crap it just means i have at least two enemies!

 

There is only one opinion i listen to ,its mine and its ALWAYS right even when its wrong

 

Its far easier to curse the darkness than light one candle

 

Mathew 4:19

Grangers law : anything i say will  turn out the opposite or not happen at all!

Life insurance? you wont enjoy a penny!

"To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical." Thomas Jefferson

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Captain

How far south are the going My mates in Andalucia have not reported anything? but it is a tad drier down there.

Chesters

When I used to stay in the Delta del Ebro all of the Casas de Pais/Rurales used to have fly screens on the doors and windows like you mentioned, however with the advent of air conditioning they were becoming redundant. I have to say apart from when I was in the marshy areas; mozzies or other flies were never much of a problem, things have obviously changed.

 

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Hi Tony and Sue,

 

Lend us a quid. :thumbs::rolleyes:

Fishing seems to be my favorite form of loafing.

 

"Even a bad day of fishing is better than a good day of work."

 

I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.

 

What do you think if the float does not dip, try again I think.

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Hi Medway

 

I will lend it to you on the condition you get KAYC to join KAPS. :):)

 

Tony

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After a certain age, if you don't wake up aching in every joint, you are probably dead.

 

 

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Hi Medway

 

I will lend it to you on the condition you get KAYC to join KAPS. :):)

 

Tony

 

KAYC you tite B**sTA*d JOIN.

 

There you go tony that should do it, however it could get me the sack. :thumbs::rolleyes:

Fishing seems to be my favorite form of loafing.

 

"Even a bad day of fishing is better than a good day of work."

 

I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.

 

What do you think if the float does not dip, try again I think.

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OK I will knock that pound off his guest ticket next time he comers out with us.

 

Tony

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After a certain age, if you don't wake up aching in every joint, you are probably dead.

 

 

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OK I will knock that pound off his guest ticket next time he comers out with us.

 

Tony

 

That's a deal. :thumbs:

Fishing seems to be my favorite form of loafing.

 

"Even a bad day of fishing is better than a good day of work."

 

I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.

 

What do you think if the float does not dip, try again I think.

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