Thursday, April 3, 2008

Boring.......


This is Nick with his friend Mac. They had been down at the pond fishing when they decided it was time to come in as they were being eaten alive by the NO SEE UMS (I am sure I spelled that incorrectly). They are horrible. I gave Mac a hat to wear, as the bugs love the head. If your arms and legs are not covered up, when you come in the house you will look like you have the measles.

1 comment:

Beryl, Melvyn, Christopher and Rick said...

Professor Rick says:
Ceratopogonidae, biting midges or, in the United States, no-see-ums, are a family of small flies
(1-4 mm long) in the order Diptera. They are closely related to the Chironomidae, Simuliidae, and Thaumaleidae. They are found in almost any aquatic or semiaquatic habitat throughout the world. Females (that figures)of most species are adapted to suck blood from some kind of host animal, i.e,(Nick (and his friend)