I have never got so many bites on my legs before than I have this
Christmas period and I can only assume they are gnat bites, nasty ones
at that! It's not the time of year you would expect to get them either.
We have no pets so I don't think it's fleas, but then they are normally
a lot smaller bites. Could they be anything else?
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Twitter:@SS9Weatherman

On 01/01/2016 12:18, Keith (Southend) wrote:
I have never got so many bites on my legs before than I have this
Christmas period and I can only assume they are gnat bites, nasty ones
at that! It's not the time of year you would expect to get them either.
We have no pets so I don't think it's fleas, but then they are normally
a lot smaller bites. Could they be anything else?

Possibly midges though I have put outside a few mosquitoes this
autumn/winter that have ventured in through an open window.

Here midges seem to be more of a feature of the winter time rather than
the spring/summer and can be an irritation though nothing remotely on
the scale of what I have experienced in June in the Highlands.

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On Friday, 1 January 2016 12:18:22 UTC, Keith (Southend)G wrote:
I have never got so many bites on my legs before than I have this
Christmas period and I can only assume they are gnat bites, nasty ones
at that! It's not the time of year you would expect to get them either.
We have no pets so I don't think it's fleas, but then they are normally
a lot smaller bites. Could they be anything else?
--
Keith (Southend)
"Weather Home & Abroad"
http://www.southendweather.net
Twitter:@SS9Weatherman



Nats are common at Christmas

On Friday, 1 January 2016 12:39:40 UTC, Lawrence Jenkins wrote:
On Friday, 1 January 2016 12:18:22 UTC, Keith (Southend)G wrote:
I have never got so many bites on my legs before than I have this
Christmas period and I can only assume they are gnat bites, nasty ones
at that! It's not the time of year you would expect to get them either.
We have no pets so I don't think it's fleas, but then they are normally
a lot smaller bites. Could they be anything else?
--
Keith (Southend)
"Weather Home & Abroad"
http://www.southendweather.net
Twitter:@SS9Weatherman



Nats are common at Christmas

And Midges both are prevalent every Christmas period,

On Fri, 1 Jan 2016 12:18:24 +0000, "Keith (Southend)" wrote:

I have never got so many bites on my legs before than I have this
Christmas period and I can only assume they are gnat bites, nasty ones
at that! It's not the time of year you would expect to get them either.
We have no pets so I don't think it's fleas, but then they are normally
a lot smaller bites. Could they be anything else?

Have you thought of wearing trousers....?

On 02/01/2016 09:30, Malcolm Ogilvie wrote:
On Fri, 1 Jan 2016 12:18:24 +0000, "Keith (Southend)" wrote:

I have never got so many bites on my legs before than I have this
Christmas period and I can only assume they are gnat bites, nasty ones
at that! It's not the time of year you would expect to get them either.
We have no pets so I don't think it's fleas, but then they are normally
a lot smaller bites. Could they be anything else?

Have you thought of wearing trousers....?


It could be horseflies, they give a very nasty bite.

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On 02/01/2016 09:30, Malcolm Ogilvie wrote:
On Fri, 1 Jan 2016 12:18:24 +0000, "Keith (Southend)"
wrote:

I have never got so many bites on my legs before than I have this
Christmas period and I can only assume they are gnat bites, nasty ones
at that! It's not the time of year you would expect to get them either.
We have no pets so I don't think it's fleas, but then they are normally
a lot smaller bites. Could they be anything else?

Have you thought of wearing trousers....?


It could be horseflies, they give a very nasty bite.

I remember when I lived in Arctic Sweden, biting insects cane in
distinct seasons through the short summer. First in early summer came
the midges (mygg), then a few weeks later the mosquitoes (knott) and
finally the horseflies. So, I suspect you either have the first midges
or the last horeseflies.




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On Friday, 1 January 2016 12:40:30 UTC, Lawrence Jenkins wrote:
On Friday, 1 January 2016 12:39:40 UTC, Lawrence Jenkins wrote:
On Friday, 1 January 2016 12:18:22 UTC, Keith (Southend)G wrote:
I have never got so many bites on my legs before than I have this
Christmas period and I can only assume they are gnat bites, nasty ones
at that! It's not the time of year you would expect to get them either.
We have no pets so I don't think it's fleas, but then they are normally
a lot smaller bites. Could they be anything else?
--
Keith (Southend)
"Weather Home & Abroad"
http://www.southendweather.net
Twitter:@SS9Weatherman



Nats are common at Christmas

And Midges both are prevalent every Christmas period,

Do they know its Christmas-Midge Ure

The Christmas Song -Gnat King Cole.