Thread subject: Diptera.info :: "Puri puri" ....? Venezuela
Posted by Andre Megroz on 20-08-2009 22:26
#1
Foto: Venezuela, San José, 27.1.2006. These very, very little insects hurt very much when they bite. You see it on my hand.
Posted by Andrzej on 20-08-2009 22:28
#2
probably a biting midge (Ceratopogonidae) ;)
Posted by Stephane Lebrun on 20-08-2009 22:30
#3
Black fly (Simuliidae), a biting nematoceran indeed (I suppose what you name Puri puri".). ;)
Posted by Andrzej on 20-08-2009 22:31
#4
indeed !
Posted by ChrisR on 20-08-2009 22:35
#5
I have plenty of "experience" of neotropical simulids and would be happy if I never saw another one! :D 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 :(
Posted by Andre Megroz on 20-08-2009 22:55
#6
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.
Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 20-08-2009 23:03
#7
it looks like VARICELLA! :| (=Chickenpox )
Edited by jorgemotalmeida on 20-08-2009 23:03
Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 20-08-2009 23:07
#8
ChrisR wrote:
I have plenty of "experience" of neotropical simulids and would be happy if I never saw another one! :D 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!! :D
here the lyrics by RADIOHEAD written by some "simullid fly" :D:D:D
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
:D lol
Posted by Andrzej on 20-08-2009 23:10
#9
LOL :o
Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 20-08-2009 23:25
#10
Once time I saw a swarm of female simuliids but they didn't bite me :D
Neither culicids bite me.. :)
Posted by Paul Beuk on 21-08-2009 07:46
#11
Of course: that would be drinking pure poison... :P
Posted by ChrisR on 21-08-2009 09:32
#12
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
Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 21-08-2009 11:34
#13
you are just jealous, Paul. The simuliids seems to like sucking/driking Dutch blood. :D No, you can relax: i'm not jealous. :D
I don't need DEET neither anti-histamines. :P What's that? :P
Edited by jorgemotalmeida on 21-08-2009 11:40
Posted by Andrzej on 21-08-2009 12:00
#14
Maybe the sumiliids hate "Vinho do Porto" :P
Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 21-08-2009 12:14
#15
:D
I can share some vinho do Porto with those who have problems with simuliids. Just form a queue. :D
Edited by jorgemotalmeida on 21-08-2009 12:31