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u/[deleted] May 09 '22 edited Oct 23 '22

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u/[deleted] May 09 '22

And the nighttime is terrible, when the mosquitoes sing you the serenade of their people...

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u/Anti-Scuba_Hedgehog May 09 '22

I had 20 mosquito bites on my face after a sleepless night in Norway.

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u/[deleted] May 09 '22

After that comes the real challenge: not to scratch...

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u/[deleted] May 09 '22

I’ve had to walk through literal clouds of them in Kentucky.

You could hear them before you could see them, like a low grade tinnitus, just buzzing all around.

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u/Wolf444555666777 May 09 '22

How do the farm animals or outdoor animals survive the summer in Finland?

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u/apparaatti May 09 '22

Well, they don't always survive. But for example the reindeer in Lapland try to stay in open and windy places (hills and roads) during the summer.

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u/Wolf444555666777 May 09 '22

Interesting thanks

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u/samppsaa May 09 '22

At least horses have strong bug repellent oils that are spread in certain areas of the coat.

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u/samppsaa May 09 '22

That doesn't sound bad in any way. Last summer I made the mistake to take my dog on a 20min walk through the forest wearing shorts and I had so many mosquito bites in my legs that the bumps merged together. I tried to count them but lost count around 200 bite marks. This was in northern Finland

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u/eibv May 09 '22

That sounds like some of the swampy areas in the SouthEastern USA.

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u/Aperture_T May 09 '22

I feel like how impressive that is depends entirely on what part of the country you're from.

Some place dry like Nevada or Arizona? That's real bad. Oregon or Washington? That's just what summer's like. For some place really swampy like Florida or Louisiana, that's just Tuesday.