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 "Puri puri" ....? Venezuela
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| Andre Megroz |
Posted on 20-08-2009 22:26
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Member Location: Switzerland Posts: 526 Joined: 08.08.09 |
Foto: Venezuela, San José, 27.1.2006. These very, very little insects hurt very much when they bite. You see it on my hand.
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| Andrzej |
Posted on 20-08-2009 22:28
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Member Location: Poland Posts: 2409 Joined: 05.01.06 |
probably a biting midge (Ceratopogonidae) 
dr. A. J. Woznica, Institute of Environmental Biology, Wroclaw University of Environmental & Life Sciences |
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| Stephane Lebrun |
Posted on 20-08-2009 22:30
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 Member Location: Le Havre, France Posts: 8248 Joined: 03.03.07 |
Black fly (Simuliidae), a biting nematoceran indeed (I suppose what you name Puri puri".).
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| Andrzej |
Posted on 20-08-2009 22:31
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Member Location: Poland Posts: 2409 Joined: 05.01.06 |
indeed !
dr. A. J. Woznica, Institute of Environmental Biology, Wroclaw University of Environmental & Life Sciences |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 20-08-2009 22:35
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 Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7703 Joined: 12.07.04 |
I have plenty of "experience" of neotropical simulids and would be happy if I never saw another one!  I have never found another bite that itches as long as these - the itching comes and goes but 2 weeks later it can itch like crazy. They love to bite the elbows and ears 
Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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| Andre Megroz |
Posted on 20-08-2009 22:55
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Member Location: Switzerland Posts: 526 Joined: 08.08.09 |
All of you are totaly right. The foto shows the bites of the puri-puri (the locals call it so). Foto: Venezuela, 27.1.06, leg of my friend.
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| jorgemotalmeida |
Posted on 20-08-2009 23:03
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 Member Location: Viseu - PORTUGAL Posts: 9296 Joined: 05.06.06 |
it looks like VARICELLA!  (=Chickenpox )
Edited by jorgemotalmeida on 20-08-2009 23:03 |
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| jorgemotalmeida |
Posted on 20-08-2009 23:07
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Member Location: Viseu - PORTUGAL Posts: 9296 Joined: 05.06.06 |
ChrisR wrote: I have plenty of "experience" of neotropical simulids and would be happy if I never saw another one! I have never found another bite that itches as long as these - the itching comes and goes but 2 weeks later it can itch like crazy. They love to bite the elbows and ears WE SUCK YOUNG BLOOD!! here the lyrics by RADIOHEAD written by some "simullid fly" We Suck Young Blood Are you hungry? Are you sick? Are you begging for a break? Are you sweet? Are you fresh? Are you strung up by the wrists? We want the young blood (la [x8]) Are you fracturing? Are you torn at the seams? Would you do anything? Fleabitten motheaten? [ Radiohead Lyrics are found on www.songlyrics.com ] We suck young blood (la [x8]) We suck young blood (la [x8]) Woah woah Won't let the creeping ivy Won't let the nervous bury me Our veins are thin Our rivers poisoned We want the sweet meat (la [x8]) We want the young blood lol |
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| Andrzej |
Posted on 20-08-2009 23:10
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Member Location: Poland Posts: 2409 Joined: 05.01.06 |
LOL 
dr. A. J. Woznica, Institute of Environmental Biology, Wroclaw University of Environmental & Life Sciences |
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| jorgemotalmeida |
Posted on 20-08-2009 23:25
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Member Location: Viseu - PORTUGAL Posts: 9296 Joined: 05.06.06 |
Once time I saw a swarm of female simuliids but they didn't bite me Neither culicids bite me..  |
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| Paul Beuk |
Posted on 21-08-2009 07:46
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 Super Administrator Location: Netherlands Posts: 19403 Joined: 11.05.04 |
Of course: that would be drinking pure poison... 
Paul - - - - Paul Beuk on https://diptera.info |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 21-08-2009 09:32
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Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7703 Joined: 12.07.04 |
While in Russia at the beginning of July my girlfriend decided to show me and Ivo, a mutual friend of ours, a local beauty spot. We just had to walk through some forest to get there. Ivo was immediately surrounded by clouds of biting mosquitoes and tabanids ... I had a few buzzing around me but none bit me ... while my girlfriend couldn't understand what the problem was - she didn't even see a mosquito! In South America I can't remember being bitten by more than a few mosquitoes but simulids always found my ears and elbows
Edited by ChrisR on 21-08-2009 09:33 Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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| jorgemotalmeida |
Posted on 21-08-2009 11:34
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Member Location: Viseu - PORTUGAL Posts: 9296 Joined: 05.06.06 |
you are just jealous, Paul. The simuliids seems to like sucking/driking Dutch blood. No, you can relax: i'm not jealous. I don't need DEET neither anti-histamines. What's that?
Edited by jorgemotalmeida on 21-08-2009 11:40 |
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| Andrzej |
Posted on 21-08-2009 12:00
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Member Location: Poland Posts: 2409 Joined: 05.01.06 |
Maybe the sumiliids hate "Vinho do Porto"
dr. A. J. Woznica, Institute of Environmental Biology, Wroclaw University of Environmental & Life Sciences |
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| jorgemotalmeida |
Posted on 21-08-2009 12:14
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Member Location: Viseu - PORTUGAL Posts: 9296 Joined: 05.06.06 |
I can share some vinho do Porto with those who have problems with simuliids. Just form a queue.
Edited by jorgemotalmeida on 21-08-2009 12:31 |
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