Everyone rejoices at the arrival of summer: both children and adults. The weather is getting warmer, the days are getting longer, which means you can be outside much longer than in winter. That's just one has only to wait until the sun begins to decline to the horizon, as the real nightmare begins! Clouds of some small winged creatures fly at us, which greedily seek to suck all the blood out of us. Especially a lot of them can be found near a river, lake or other place with high humidity.
Fortunately, today there are many products to repel these insects. These are all kinds of creams, gels, ointments, sprays, fumigators. Their help is invaluable. But who is still biting us? It turns out that not only mosquitoes are capable of this.
Who drinks our blood?
All small dipteran insects that feed on human blood are collectively called midges. It can be both mosquitoes and various midges, midges, horseflies. They drink not only human blood, they also like the red liquid of warm-blooded animals. All of them are most active in the first half of summer.
Gnus is a team of thousands of species of mosquitoes, andhundreds of species of midges, horseflies and midges. Very nasty guys. Depending on the area of residence, the midge, the photo of which you see above, may have a different species composition.
Mosquitoes
Mosquitoes love to eat human or animal blood at dusk. Moreover, we are talking only about females and only after mating, which is repeated many times during her short life (30-40 days). They need blood to lay eggs, which happens every two or three days. Each clutch is from 30 to 200 eggs.
A female can smell a cluster of animals or people at a distance of two or three kilometers. Before the start of the meal, the female mosquito lets her saliva into the skin of the victim, which prevents blood clotting, and subsequently causes itching and swelling or an allergic reaction. A gnat bite can also cause an allergic reaction. Males feed exclusively on vegetable juices, so their numerous accumulations near the water are not at all dangerous.
Bitches
These are the smallest of the diptera blood-sucking insects. From midges they are mainly distinguished by the size of the body and the length of the wings. Sometimes their size does not even exceed one millimeter. Mokretsy love to settle in places with high humidity. They especially prefer stagnant ponds, wetlands. Sometimes 10 thousand midges attack a person at once. Their bites are very stinging.
Biting midges are especially active in the morning, in the evening and in very cloudy weather. They do not like heat, the optimum temperature for them is 180C. In the thicket of the forest, where it is dark andcool, they can attack even during the day. Due to their tiny size, these insects are able to easily penetrate clothing. During the day, midges are in the grass, bushes, and crowns of trees. They rarely fly into a person's home.
Moshka
If you see insects around you that are strikingly similar to flies, but have a much smaller size, then you have a midge in front of you. The midge, among which there is a midge, is very bloodthirsty. It happened that an animal or a person in the forest was overtaken by a group of several thousand of these insects. These insidious creatures can even penetrate clothing.
The midges, like mosquitoes, bite in the morning, in the evening or in the middle of a cloudy day. During the bite, they inject their anesthetic saliva, which later causes severe burning and swelling. The midge is mainly found near fast-flowing rivers.
Gidflies
Horseflies are the largest representatives of blood-sucking two-winged insects, which are commonly called midges. These are large insects, the average size of which is two to three centimeters, but six-centimeter individuals are also found. They are often confused with gadflies. Only females drink blood, going hunting on sunny, hot days.
The bites of these insects are extremely painful due to the fact that they let their poisonous saliva under the skin. In one sitting, a female horsefly can drink as much blood as 70 mosquitoes or 4,000 midges drink. These insects got their name because during the bite they completely do not notice the threat looming over them.
Now you know for sure that midges are two-winged blood-sucking insects, which include mosquitoes, midges, midges and horseflies. The blood of animals and humans is drunk only by females, as they need it for laying eggs. Males are completely harmless to humans, as their vegetarian diet includes only the juices of various plants.
