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Ed.Kloonk:

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--- Quote from: Zero999 on June 08, 2023, 09:26:12 pm ---You've put the decimal point in the wrong place. Global temperatures have risen by 0.08°C per decade.
https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/climate-change-global-temperature

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Whoops, thanks, I thought something looked wrong when I went back to read it.


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That how it starts!  :rant:

 ;)
IanB:

--- Quote from: james_s on June 09, 2023, 12:04:17 am ---I don't think he's jumping and screaming and scared of them, like me he just finds them to be a nuisance. I certainly don't want bugs in my house, not because I'm afraid of them but because it's extremely distracting and annoying to have a fly buzzing around or a moth attracted to the light of the TV or computer screen or flitting around a light, and flies carry disease (they crawl around on piles of animal shit) so I don't want them crawling around on my food. Also here where I am we have a large number of mosquitoes which love my blood and eat me alive given the chance, and wasps which I'm mildly allergic to which causes a very painful sting with lots of swelling.

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We do find them to be a nuisance in Britain too, but not excessively so. There are a few factors which make a difference. Firstly, the UK tends to have very defined boundaries between urban areas and rural areas, and most of the rural areas are farmed, and not wild. There are vast numbers of flying insects in the UK, but mostly they tend to keep to their own habitat, and few venture inside houses. Yes, the odd fly or wasp or moth will come inside, but we just live with the annoyance and shrug it off.

On the other hand, if you drive through the countryside in the summer months, your car and windshield will get completely covered in squashed bugs, and it will be a real pain to clean them off. Also, if you go for a walk in parkland or a nature reserve, then swarms of midges will surround you and follow you. As a child I used to find it amusing to run for a distance to leave the midges behind, and then watch as the swarm followed me and regrouped around my head, just like in a cartoon.
Ed.Kloonk:

--- Quote from: IanB on June 09, 2023, 12:19:06 am ---
On the other hand, if you drive through the countryside in the summer months, your car and windshield will get completely covered in squashed bugs, and it will be a real pain to clean them off.

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Driving between Australian capital cities at twilight is a excellent way to fill the car's radiator with blanket of dead insect. Hard to remove.
IanB:

--- Quote from: james_s on June 09, 2023, 12:04:17 am ---I don't think he's jumping and screaming and scared of them...
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Right, but you may not have seen the reaction of excitable people to crane flies  ;D

I assume they are found in the USA, but when I was growing up they were as populous as CatalinaWOW described cicadas to be. Except that unlike cicadas, crane flies flutter around like crazy giant mosquitoes and give people the heebie-jeebies.
IanB:
Since I was curious, I found that window screens are absolutely available in the UK, you just have to buy them and fit them.

It seems that mostly they are designed to fit on the inside, and they attach to the frame with velcro or magnets so they are easy to move aside.
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