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Mosquitoes in Italy
Back years ago, one of the regular posters to a.t.e complained several
times about mosquitoes in Milan. I believe he was an Aussie who lived there several years? Been to different parts of Italy several times, though mostly in May and early June. Never encountered any problems with mosquitoes. Maybe a bite here or there. Once in Venice, the place I stayed had those plug-in bug zappers of some kind in the rooms. But it was never the scourge that he made it sound like. Is it worse in July and August? Anyways, a place I booked in Pisa for an upcoming trip lists under "Services" mosquito nets in all rooms. It's kind of close to the Arno but really more the city center, chosen for a one-night stay because of proximity to the train station than anything else. This would be the first time I encounter mosquito nets in ... well anywhere. Made me think of those posts. |
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Am Mon, 01 Jun 2015 14:34:08 -0700 schrieb poldy:
Back years ago, one of the regular posters to a.t.e complained several times about mosquitoes in Milan. I believe he was an Aussie who lived there several years? Been to different parts of Italy several times, though mostly in May and early June. Never encountered any problems with mosquitoes. Maybe a bite here or there. Once in Venice, the place I stayed had those plug-in bug zappers of some kind in the rooms. But it was never the scourge that he made it sound like. Been to Italy a few times, but never found mosquitos a problem. Is it worse in July and August? Anyways, a place I booked in Pisa for an upcoming trip lists under "Services" mosquito nets in all rooms. Sounds strange anyway, I never encountered something like this in Italy. Only thing you should avoid is to switch the lights on in the night when the windows are open, tht will attract all kinds of mosquitos and bugs. So for that sometimes you will find windows with insect screens. But actual mosquito-nets I never seen in Europe, just know that from Asia and South America. Regards, Frank |
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On 6/2/15 1:56 AM, Martin wrote:
Never encountered any problems with mosquitoes. Maybe a bite here or there. Once in Venice, the place I stayed had those plug-in bug zappers of some kind in the rooms. But it was never the scourge that he made it sound like. Been to Italy a few times, but never found mosquitos a problem. Like DFM said, they can be in Milan. Is it worse in July and August? Yes. Anyways, a place I booked in Pisa for an upcoming trip lists under "Services" mosquito nets in all rooms. Sounds strange anyway, I never encountered something like this in Italy. Only thing you should avoid is to switch the lights on in the night when the windows are open, tht will attract all kinds of mosquitos and bugs. The hotel I used to stay in north of Turin had mosquito netting on the windows. Just got back from a week in Sardinia followed by a week in Monterosso. Temperatures in Sardinia were often 30 degrees Celsius and above though it clouded over in the afternoons almost every day, bringing some cool breezes. No mosquito problems, though one of the places I stayed had those plug in bug zappers, which wasn't plugged in. It was cooler in the Cinque Terre, no issues there with mosquitoes though I'd see some huge horseflies? Big black bodied things. It's strange the B&B in Pisa was on the 6th floor (or 7th in the US) so you wouldn't think mosquitoes would be a problem. Plus it was pretty far from the river, which didn't look like it would be a big source of mosquitoes anyways. Well had to stay in Pisa at least once, there were some nice parts beyond the Campo dei Miracoli, including the Piazza dei Cavalieri and parts of the Corso Italia. |
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Anyways, a place I booked in Pisa for an upcoming trip lists under
"Services" mosquito nets in all rooms. It's strange the B&B in Pisa was on the 6th floor (or 7th in the US) so you wouldn't think mosquitoes would be a problem. Plus it was pretty far from the river, which didn't look like it would be a big source of mosquitoes anyways. Mosquitoes seem to like getting higher than you'd think possible and in the most unexpected places. I spent half the night splatting them with a towel in an upper-floor room of a modern hotel in Grenoble. And the most heavily screened place I've ever seen, for good reason, was the lodge near the summit of Mount Nemrut in Turkey (the one with the statues) - that was around 2000 metres up with no visible surface water for miles. Down on the plain in Malatya and Urfa, no screens and not a mosquito in sight, though the river in Urfa is a sluggish muddy trickle you'd expect to breed them in billions. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- e m a i l : j a c k @ c a m p i n . m e . u k Jack Campin, 11 Third Street, Newtongrange, Midlothian EH22 4PU, Scotland mobile 07800 739 557 http://www.campin.me.uk Twitter: JackCampin |
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On Wed, 24 Jun 2015, shazi wrote:
according to my experience mosquito is a problem of asia strange to know that it does exist in italy It depends what you mean ... mosq-uito means "little fly" in Spanish ("mosca", latin "musca" is "fly" in Italian). You probably mean the biting and buzzing insect which in Italian is called "zanzara" (and may correspond to various species, Culex, Aedes, Anopheles etc.). It might be confused with Italian "moscerino" (which is a sort of diminutive of "mosca", "fly", smaller, annoying but usually not biting), which should correspond to "midges", the little insects found e.g. in humid areas in Canada or Scandinavia (like Iceland where lake Myvatn takes its name from them). A run on wikipedia toggling among various languages can be instructive. "zanzare" do exist in Italy, particularly in humid areas. They are mostly of the species Culex (the complete name "culex pipiens molestus" is very appropriate ... "annoying biting mosquito"). There are disinfection campaigns done in late spring in cities in places where water stagnates. Recently there have been sights of what is called here "zanzara tigre" (tiger mosquito), which should be Aedes Aegypti, so not of local origin. Not sure if dangerous, possibly annoying ... it is said to bite also during daytime, contrary to the other mosquitos. Dante himself has a verse about "l'ora in cui la mosca cede alla zanzara" ("the hour when flies give way to mosquitos"), referring to sunset. In fact when I used to camp in the Alps at 1800 m in a narrow valley, as soon as the sun went behind the mountain tops, mosquitos replaced flies. The Anopheles mosquitos, which carried malaria, were diffuse in the past in swampy areas like Maremma (southern Tuscany) and Paludi Pontine (south of Rome), but the areas were dried during the fascist regime, and the anopheles finally eradicated after WWII. |
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On Monday, June 1, 2015 at 10:34:13 PM UTC+1, poldy wrote:
Back years ago, one of the regular posters to a.t.e complained several times about mosquitoes in Milan. I believe he was an Aussie who lived there several years? Been to different parts of Italy several times, though mostly in May and early June. Never encountered any problems with mosquitoes. Maybe a bite here or there. Once in Venice, the place I stayed had those plug-in bug zappers of some kind in the rooms. But it was never the scourge that he made it sound like. Is it worse in July and August? Anyways, a place I booked in Pisa for an upcoming trip lists under "Services" mosquito nets in all rooms. It's kind of close to the Arno but really more the city center, chosen for a one-night stay because of proximity to the train station than anything else. This would be the first time I encounter mosquito nets in ... well anywhere. Made me think of those posts. Same here, never a problem in Italy, and we've often visited the outlying marshy Venetian islands, too. Was surprised some years ago when we had to have malaria tablets for Turkey (Side)! But never a bite. And malaria tablets were obviously a must for my trips to Nigeria - but never a bite there either! We did suffer badly years back in Rafina, near Athens, so it's not as if I have any particular immunity! |
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Am Tue, 2 Jun 2015 02:10:16 -0700 (PDT) schrieb Surreyman:
Same here, never a problem in Italy, and we've often visited the outlying marshy Venetian islands, too. Was surprised some years ago when we had to have malaria tablets for Turkey (Side)! But never a bite. We've been to Side a few years ago, bu didn't need any Malaria-prophylaxis. I also can't recall getting bitten there. But I went in October, maybe it's worse in summer. Regards, Frank |
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Was surprised some years ago when we had to have malaria tablets
for Turkey (Side)! But never a bite. We've been to Side a few years ago, but didn't need any Malaria- prophylaxis. I also can't recall getting bitten there. But I went in October, maybe it's worse in summer. Malaria control in Turkey seems to have worked, the eastern Mediterranean coast (Adana to Antakya, at least) was certainly classed as a malaria risk a few years ago. It's going to be difficult for them to do any better, with America's proxy war making it impossible for the Syrian government to conduct any public health campaigns. The worst mosquito infestation I have ever encountered was at Yusufeli in north-east Turkey. The whole area was irrigated and the little *******s bred in the channels. Which were populated by frogs feeding on them. At night the noise of fat, happy well-fed frogs was like planes taking off at an airport. No malaria risk though. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- e m a i l : j a c k @ c a m p i n . m e . u k Jack Campin, 11 Third Street, Newtongrange, Midlothian EH22 4PU, Scotland mobile 07800 739 557 http://www.campin.me.uk Twitter: JackCampin |
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On Tuesday, June 2, 2015 at 10:47:42 AM UTC+1, Martin wrote:
On Tue, 2 Jun 2015 02:10:16 -0700 (PDT), Surreyman wrote: On Monday, June 1, 2015 at 10:34:13 PM UTC+1, poldy wrote: Back years ago, one of the regular posters to a.t.e complained several times about mosquitoes in Milan. I believe he was an Aussie who lived there several years? Been to different parts of Italy several times, though mostly in May and early June. Never encountered any problems with mosquitoes. Maybe a bite here or there. Once in Venice, the place I stayed had those plug-in bug zappers of some kind in the rooms. But it was never the scourge that he made it sound like. Is it worse in July and August? Anyways, a place I booked in Pisa for an upcoming trip lists under "Services" mosquito nets in all rooms. It's kind of close to the Arno but really more the city center, chosen for a one-night stay because of proximity to the train station than anything else. This would be the first time I encounter mosquito nets in ... well anywhere. Made me think of those posts. Same here, never a problem in Italy, and we've often visited the outlying marshy Venetian islands, too. Was surprised some years ago when we had to have malaria tablets for Turkey (Side)! We never had to use malaria tablets in Side. Who told you that you needed them? There's the remains of a Roman port north east of Antalya, which the Romans abandoned, because of the problem of mosquitoes. The Romans have long gone but the mosquitoes were still there. But never a bite. And malaria tablets were obviously a must for my trips to Nigeria - but never a bite there either! We did suffer badly years back in Rafina, near Athens, so it's not as if I have any particular immunity! It's safer to use 55% DEET based insect repellant than malaria tablets. -- Martin in Zuid Holland This was some 15+ years back, apparently the whole coast is mosquito marsh. Maybe the regulations have now changed? Took us by surprise! The rest of Turkey was OK. |
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