Welcome to Winnipeg mosquito capital of Canada where you will find mosquitoes nearly large enough to carry off a small child. Mosquitoes scourge of summer, Manitoba’s provincial bird and all around pain in the ass.
The worst mosquito problem has to be when one gets into the bedroom at night. At about 1 am last night I woke up to the sound of a very distinct buzzing in my ear. Sure enough one of the many blood sucking creatures which have recently begun to develop into swarms was buzzing around my head.
You lie awake listening to it buzz past your ear over and over again just waiting for it to land so you can crush the bloody thing before it bites you. Except they never seem to land when you want them too and there is no way you can fall asleep with it dive bombing your ear every ten seconds.
Turning on the light in no way helps as the second you turn it on the offending mosquito will disappear as thoroughly as if it did not exist in the first place. Only once you have given up on finding it turned the light out and found a comfortable position will it return.
Seeing as it is always the middle of the night when the dive bombing starts its quite likely to drift off only to hear the mosquito half asleep and finally crush it to find it had already bitten you and was full of blood which is now smeared across your cheek.
Getting up to wash the blood and insect bits smeared over your face off will fully wake up anyone so getting back to sleep is always a challenge. The new bite will always itch worse than one gotten at any other time of day until thanks to one little bug you’ve spent half a night wide awake.
I leave you off with this little gem found in the town of Komarno, Mantioba(which means Mosquito in Ukrainian) where you will find the worlds largest mosquito. P.S. the provincial bird in Manitoba is actually the great grey owl
I will be in the US next week and will not be posting back on the 25th
