Mosquitos.....

Robo

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• Jul 4, 2018

• #1

Are they a problem on the VdlP? I guess it depends on time of year?

Sadly I have trouble with them. I seem to be a magnet for them and get very bad reactions to the bites.

Is there a season for them?

 

Anniesantiago

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• Jul 4, 2018

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I did not find mosquitoes to be an issue on the VDLP, mostly because it is so dry and mosquitoes need water to breed. I am a mosquito magnet too. The Portuguese is the one where they are me alive and kept me up nights dive bombing me. Bbbbbbzzzzzzzzzzz!!

 

PilgrimJames

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• Jul 4, 2018

• #3

Robo said:

Are they a problem on the VdlP? I guess it depends on time of year?

Sadly I have trouble with them. I seem to be a magnet for them and get very bad reactions to the bites.

Is there a season for them?

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I too am very attractive to mosquitoes. I was devoured by them on the Portugese in 2017 even though someone tried to convence me that the were not mosquiteos! I had walked in 32deg C during that particular day, dry and hot. BBZZZZZzzzzzZzzzZ all night. It was late September/early October. The weather certainly changed and becam damp as I progressed north into Galicia. Had no problem in Spain.

 

ranthr

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• Jul 4, 2018

• #4

I walked in May and the only place I saw moquitos was in the albergue at Embalse Encantara. Some people were badly bitten and thought it was bedbugs, but coming from a mosquitoarea I heard the sound of mosquitoes during night, put my bedbugsheet over my head and was not bitten.

 

naplesdon

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• Jul 4, 2018

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I was once a believer that there were no mosquitoes on the Camino until this year. They are voracious along the Canal de Castille and because of the rain in the Meseta they were flying out in waves from the poppies along the path.

 

Bradypus

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Too many and too often!

• Jul 4, 2018

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I walked the VdlP in three sections: October, January and February. No problem with mosquitos anywhere along the way. I may just have been lucky in October which was very warm, and they probably don't fly much in the middle of winter...

 

C clearly

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• Jul 4, 2018

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I have never noticed any in March-April-May.

 

Juanajoanna

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• Jul 6, 2018

• #8

I was there in April 2017 and never saw any. It was s dry April.
It’s a beautiful way

 

surya8

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• Jul 23, 2018

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No mosquitoes this June from Verin/Laza to Santiago (last 200km), I'd have noticed as I am a mosquito magnet as well.

 

wcsjms

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• Aug 13, 2018

• #10

If you are type "O" blood, you will have a mosquito problem anywhere they are present.