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No it's not someone from James Bond it's a something,it's the beginning of a season not in the sence that you're maybe thinking but something else. It's the beginning of the season of the most annoying, blood sucking and disgusting little things on the planet, not Putin but close it's mosquito season, no more days or nights without being bitten at least once by these tiny insignificant insects. The weather is heating up and you begin to get rid of your winter blankets and quilts as the nights are to hot and humid to soundly sleep but apart from the weather you start to drop off to sleep and they attack. What do you do when you hear that insesant buzzing and because of the darkness you can't see where it's coming from you just take a swing at which ever direction the buzzing is coming from and just when you think you've hit the target it starts again. You wake up the next morning after an uneasy sleep black and blue from where you've been swipping the mosquitos and missed, there are also little marks where they've had their midnight drink and had buzzed off to find another target. There is no escape from these monsters especially if you live close to rivers and forests which a lot of us in Croatia do, you want to sit outside and enjoy the sun but you can't because they're there waiting for you to begin their afternoon feeding. When you walk along the river even in the cities you see people waving their arms around as if they belonged in a lunatic asylum, there's no escape and you can't wait until the planes start flying and spraying liquid in an attempt to get rid of these little monsters of nature but to no avail, some survive and wait for the rain so they can start reproducing a new colony to continue their reign of annoyance. In order to get rid of them from your home you go shopping not for food but for bug spray or creams there are loads to choose from and none of them work as the label says, then you try wire nets on the windows but they've found some little hiding place so they remain a constant threat, the mosquitos are winning their relentless and blood sucking war against us no matter what we try to do. The only thing to do is put up with it and hope that when it gets colder they will die off but they don't not until it gets colder and their breeding season comes to a thankful end, wow, sleep under the blankets, warm and comfortable and no buzzing, well until next year at least, I feel sorry for all the people all over the world that have to put up with mosquitos but their a fact of life and we have to succumb and get used to it, well for the next few months at least before they start breeding again. Well that's all the buzzing news from my blog for today so until tomorrow shut your windows and doors and try to get some sleep. If you enjoyed todays blog then share, like and follow. Thank you. 

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