06 Nov 2019, 10:04 pm
"mozzies"????
Must be Australian for "mosquitos". 
07 Nov 2019, 12:21 am
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07 Nov 2019, 8:00 pm
naturalplastic wrote:
"mozzies"????
Must be Australian for "mosquitos".
Must be Australian for "mosquitos".
Yup
What do you call them .... skeeters?
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07 Nov 2019, 10:28 pm
Juliette wrote:
naturalplastic wrote:
"mozzies"????Must be Australian for "mosquitos".
Yup
What do you call them .... skeeters? skeeters, or bloodsuckers or little bastards or nasty little hummers or worse.
07 Nov 2019, 10:35 pm
auntblabby wrote:
Juliette wrote:
naturalplastic wrote:
"mozzies"????Must be Australian for "mosquitos".
Yup
What do you call them .... skeeters? skeeters, or bloodsuckers or little bastards or nasty little hummers or worse.
Skeeters(I'm adopting that term
!) are big, and uglier than ugly in Aus. I was bitten sooo many times, and was only safe under a proper mozzie net(hung over the bed). Perhaps skeeters are the reason man invented the flame thrower 
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07 Nov 2019, 10:47 pm
Juliette wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
Juliette wrote:
naturalplastic wrote:
"mozzies"????Must be Australian for "mosquitos".
Yup
What do you call them .... skeeters? skeeters, or bloodsuckers or little bastards or nasty little hummers or worse.
Skeeters(I'm adopting that term
!) are big, and uglier than ugly in Aus. I was bitten sooo many times, and was only safe under a proper mozzie net(hung over the bed). Perhaps skeeters are the reason man invented the flame thrower !we have these neat little blasters here called "bugasalt guns" that are like air-powered shotguns that shoot table salt in a deadly cone that knocks bunches of 'em out of the air. also i live in a place with a lotta bats who love hoovering the things in mid-air.
07 Nov 2019, 10:51 pm
07 Nov 2019, 10:58 pm
auntblabby wrote:
Juliette wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
Juliette wrote:
naturalplastic wrote:
"mozzies"????Must be Australian for "mosquitos".
Yup
What do you call them .... skeeters? skeeters, or bloodsuckers or little bastards or nasty little hummers or worse.
Skeeters(I'm adopting that term
!) are big, and uglier than ugly in Aus. I was bitten sooo many times, and was only safe under a proper mozzie net(hung over the bed). Perhaps skeeters are the reason man invented the flame thrower !we have these neat little blasters here called "bugasalt guns" that are like air-powered shotguns that shoot table salt in a deadly cone that knocks bunches of 'em out of the air. also i live in a place with a lotta bats who love hoovering the things in mid-air.
What is this magic, and why is it not being exported to Aus poste haste?! 
I lived in a place with alot of bats too, they would sleep upside down in my banana trees, and would still be sleeping on the overhead power lines in the street, on the way to school. Aussie bats clearly have nothing on US bats 
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07 Nov 2019, 11:01 pm
Juliette wrote:
What is this magic, and why is it not being exported to Aus poste haste?! I lived in a place with alot of bats too, they would sleep upside down in my banana trees, and would still be sleeping on the overhead power lines in the street, on the way to school. Aussie bats clearly have nothing on US bats ...your bats might not like the taste of skeeter. and bugasalt guns are on amazon, though i don't know if your gun laws would permit it.
07 Nov 2019, 11:25 pm
Juliette wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
Juliette wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
Juliette wrote:
naturalplastic wrote:
"mozzies"????Must be Australian for "mosquitos".
Yup
What do you call them .... skeeters? skeeters, or bloodsuckers or little bastards or nasty little hummers or worse.
Skeeters(I'm adopting that term
!) are big, and uglier than ugly in Aus. I was bitten sooo many times, and was only safe under a proper mozzie net(hung over the bed). Perhaps skeeters are the reason man invented the flame thrower !we have these neat little blasters here called "bugasalt guns" that are like air-powered shotguns that shoot table salt in a deadly cone that knocks bunches of 'em out of the air. also i live in a place with a lotta bats who love hoovering the things in mid-air.
What is this magic, and why is it not being exported to Aus poste haste?! I lived in a place with alot of bats too, they would sleep upside down in my banana trees, and would still be sleeping on the overhead power lines in the street, on the way to school. Aussie bats clearly have nothing on US bats ...Am an American, but I never heard of "bugasalt guns"!
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But yes here in the US you see bats darting around at dusk in the warm months chasing gnats and mosquitos.
In North America (at least north of Mexico) you NEVER see bats sleeping out in the open hanging from things. American bats keep well hidden in the daytime.
The bats you're describing that you actually SEE, asleep in the daytime hanging from banana trees and powerlines must be fruit bats. Much bigger than bug eating bats they ….well...eat fruit...and don't do anything about insects.
Fun fact: bats are just about the only placental mammals native to Australia. Pretty much all ground bound furry critters in Australia (kangaroos, wallabies, koalas, wombats, possums) are marsupials.
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08 Nov 2019, 1:54 pm
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! !
08 Nov 2019, 1:54 pm
naturalplastic wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
That ad is a Monty Python fantasy come to life!
Well, that made my day
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08 Nov 2019, 2:05 pm
