>> On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Bob Denton wrote: > You live in Florida and have never experienced no-see-ums?????!!!! Born in Miami, in fact. I've been told they're the same things we always called sandflies. Had about 40 bites per foot camping off the Hillsborough River a few months ago. But they were wusses compared to midges. Maybe they are gentler the farther south you go? e Elaine Harmon - eilidh_at_dc.seflin.org - eharmon_at_cs.miami.edu >> Up here in the North Country, what we call sand flies are about the size of house flies. Chuck Holst *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
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