Up north in Kanuck-istan, we have only two seasons: heating oil season and mosquito oil season.
Our deer flies are akin F-16 jet fighters. Fast, manoeuverable, and they take a chunk away (like horse flies) every time they hit you.
The good thing, though, they are stoooopid, so you can slam them while they're on you, before they eat you alive (if you can see them).
Their favorite song is "Every time you go away, you take a piece of meat with you..."
Now, for mosquitoes...
Our mosquitoes are not wimpy american mosquitoes either, they are hefty beefy Kanuck ones ! Four 3000 HP 21 cylinders radial engines like the old B-24 Liberators bombers, you can hear them coming from miles away. Heck, they can even take off from your livid, blooddrained butt on one single engine carrying their full 5 gallons load of fresh blood !
The scientific name of our mosquitoes is Mosquitosorus Rex
It's not any coincidence that during WW-II, we produced the Mosquito fighter-bomber, renowned for it's ruggedness (some of them actually, and accidentally, passed the sound barrier, IIRC.) . It was a scaled-down version of our northern living mosquitoes.
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