2008年11月20日木曜日

About Insects in New Zealand


Attention:Can you make up your mind to read this Blog and see pictures??

This Web Site is useful because you can distinguish the difference between Mosquitoes and Sand Flies among others.
These are pictures or Web site about "Huhu grub" , "Sandfly" and "other insects".

Anyway, people generally call the insect "Sandfly". To tell the truth, the name is officially"Blackfly".
Blackflies of two races and thirteen kinds, New Zealand Blackfly and Westcoast Blackfly live in New Zealand. This map is nuisance map in New Zealand. Moreover, there is a place that named " SANDFLY POINT" in MILFORD TRACK. The origin of this point, "Sandfly" refers to the common name of a flying, biting, blood-sucking insect found in abundance in Fiordland. This is not closely related...




What was worse, there are "Blackflies", the insects named "Buyu" in Japan. So, considering the circumstances mentioned above, when you go to New Zealand, you take care about "Sndflies( Blackflies)!!

Anyway, I found a moving image about "fear for Sandfly", so watch this moving image please. It was scary noise, right?

By the way, Insects in New Zealand arebasically gigantic. For example,this is a "stic insect" in New Zealand. The other party, this is a "stick insect" in Japan.
Sandfly Repellent ( Example)
Sand Fly-bye($10.00)...This lotion is non greasy and contains no synthetic or petro chemical additives. Moreover you pleasant lemon scented aroma.
Suncoast($9.90)...This contains blend of high quality essential oils, Almond Oil, Tea Tree Oil.