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Post by jackeen on Sept 4, 2004 1:06:19 GMT 1
Hi,
Just want to say beware of buying near Forest as I had the ears blown of me while staying in a Apartment on Brac.I don't know the name of the Beetle like Creature but I suffered along with some people who had bought Apartments in the same Area.I could walk away after two weeks but these people were stuck with the Problem.
Anybody else have the same problem??
Jackeen
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Post by alsdoubles on Sept 4, 2004 13:10:26 GMT 1
I'd laugh, but I shouldn't. My wife (Croatian born) is being eaten alive by bugs, blackflies, mosquitos. Angry one inch diameter bites everywhere. On the soles of her feet, and two on her eyelid that makes me look like a wife-beater. (She even now sleep under a mosquito net). She IS miserable and wants us to go back to England. She also jumps miles at tarantellas, gushtas, preying mantis, beautiful creatures. Several kinds of huge grasshoppers. A green scarab like thing that flies like a bomb and always end up on its back on the floor. Frogs, that eat cat-food. Bats that cicle street lights at night. The annoying squeaky things I think are called something like 'gigirats'. Like an ugly large fly with a chicken body. They sure squeak when it gets hot. Multiple types of spider. Red, grey, green. Black widows in a few rare spots. Less house spiders than in the UK. Snakes I've not seen, but they are in the forrests. Brown snakes eat the colourful poinsenous snakes. But best left alone, all of them. The stray cats are good with snakes, I'm told. And wonderful bird-life. Come to think of it the wildlife can turn you in to a twitcher. One way or the other. I'm no expert, believe me. The squeakers when it was 38 and 30 at night were a 'do your head in' orchestra. No doubt about it!
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Post by englishbloke on Sept 4, 2004 21:36:58 GMT 1
I love wildlife, but on Hvar 3 months ago I hardly saw anything. Cats there of course, but wildlife out of the water? - nothing. Unless I was strangely blind, except gulls I don't recall a single bird.
Insects - yes, that strange green flying beetle...landing on its back; evil looking green-headed wasps (-anyone know how lethal these are? My poor body doesn't deal with wasps that well); a bright green 3-foot snake; grasshoppers; mosquitoes, and not much else that I could see.
Someone tell me I'm wrong - I'm moving out there soon. Also, Alsdoubles, where are you? - you must be exagerating - please tell me you are!
- I'm also not keen on getting bitten to death: anyone with experience - please tell us.
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Post by alsdoubles on Sept 4, 2004 23:48:27 GMT 1
Englishbloke...as am I. I think 'the wife' is a special case. Well. I always knew that. Croat you see. I get bitten. A bit. But the creatures probably DIE from the taste of me. Most of the time I walk around more exposed than I've ever been. Nothing really troubles me. I am in Sibenik. I am not exagerating. The wildlife is wonderful. Tarantellas, we (I) have names for them. You can see what they've had for dinner. Thery're trasparent. I've spent half the summer upturning greenies. Who still appear pretty stupid when you give them the chance to escape. Wasps. Jeez. There are some monster wasps here. And I too do not react too well to wasp bites. Double body hornets, with pollen sacks hanging like bomb doors. Evil looking mothers. We had 250 kilos of rotten grapes, growing on high creeper racks. Due to an unsual season where we lost the lot. Lot of diseases in grapes this year. The wasps were all over them. Thousands. I binned them last week, dodging wasps the size of cruise missiles. Cheesed off about the grapes, big time. Some of the bird life...Rare! Get Bill Oddie on the phone. The birds are great out here. Feathered and not feathered.
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Post by Exile on Sept 17, 2004 12:46:43 GMT 1
Just got back from Croatia last week and ran into some interesting bugs too including:
A giant wasp carrying a grasshopper about the size of my little finger.
A snake, silver grey colour about two feet long, in hills above Zivogosce, freshly killed by a car. Well almost killed, I finished it off with a stick and as the driver probably didn't know he had run it over I will claim the kill.
Many massive night flying things that tended to slam into our balcony at night and flutter about, we learnt after night two to leave the light off.
There are also millions of blood sucking mosquitos, found one of those plug in gadgets very usefull.
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