A question about bugz
 

I know that bug nets for sleeping is pretty regular, but when I was discussing my trip with the travel doctor, she had mentioned we should buy and bring with us a full mosquito net to place around the bed at night.
The problem is, we looked at it, and its hella' bulky, and if I dont have to bring I would prefer not to.
So, Is it a good idea, or not?

Thanks for any help. =)

Are mosquitoes like an Asian insect or are they common in the west as well?

There are plenty of mosquitoes in America, but we never hear of malaria over here. One problem that has cropped up in recent years in the West Nile Virus, which is also transmitted by mosquitoes.

When I lived in Michigan many years ago, I always had numerous mosquito bites every summer. San Diego and Albuquerque were desert areas, so I did not get bit very much there. In Florida, they are controlled for. The government sprays all areas with standing water to kill mosquito larve. We still have a few, but nothing like I remember from my childhood in Michigan (black flies that bite too).

It seems the farther north you go the bigger the mosquitos. ( In summer of course)
Also, dengue fever is spread by the suckers. {PLay on words.}http://www.thailandguidebook.com/iB_...ns/biggrin.gif

Um....

Would this be a bad time to ask if anyone has tried the fried grasshopper?

This is also true about the Human female, The female human species is always sucking the blood off the Male humans. Every time she wants to go out on a first date, support her children and life style she is sucking the blood of a Man.

As there's is nothing human in your feeling about females, you fear nothing Paul_au

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Paul_au

I would "cheng" you to be a woman and be someone's wife. Not only would you have to clean the house, cook 3 meals a day-7 days a week, take care of the children, look pretty. be sexy, and you're also supposed to be the other half of the bread-winning equation as well! Who's sucking whose blood!? http://www.thailandguidebook.com/iB_...icons/rock.gif

Thanks for the great photo Delawang! My wife was very excited; she really misses ahan Isan. We are planning to be in Sahatsakhan in mid August. She wants me to try laap (that bloody concoction just to the left of center in the photo). I don't know if I'm ready to eat anything that has poop buffalo in the list of ingrediants http://www.thailandguidebook.com/iB_...cons/laugh.gif

I had the intention to try some bugs in BKK, but when I was there and the temperature was about 35 degrees together with all the different smells (exhaust gasses, durians, meat, fish), I suddenly lost my appetite http://www.thailandguidebook.com/iB_...ns/biggrin.gif

BTW in Holland we have a new restaurant since a couple of months specialized in crickets. Too bad I don't like bugs, they seem to be very nutritious and protein-rich food.

Hope your farms are organic. If not, careful the dogs don't get ODed with whatever chemicals are being used to deal with the plague. Thai grasshopper eaters learnt the hard way! http://www.thailandguidebook.com/iB_...ons/tounge.gif

Nam prik mangda At first I had my reservations . It is an acquired taste. ;but after yum yum!!!http://www.thailandguidebook.com/iB_...ns/biggrin.gif

ok http://www.thailandguidebook.com/iB_...icons/cool.gif

I can imagine that it's difficult to describe what they taste like. I probably have to figure out myself.

Anyway, I like this description http://www.thailandguidebook.com/iB_...ns/biggrin.gif

Well, now that I've cooled down, I'm actually feeling sorry for Paul_au.

Come back and be nice, make peace, OK? Paul? http://www.thailandguidebook.com/iB_...xsantawave.gif

We're really not all that mean, just as I'm sure you're just too impulsive with your words on the internet. Because it's so easy to write things, it's not like in a conversation where the words just sort of disappear into thin air and memory! Here, it gets recorded forever. I've committed the same mistake several times, and had my ears BURN after discovering it. I forgive you and take back my cheng.

Elephantspike:
They're called "Takkataen", Delawang.

Elephantspike, I like the way they are crunchy and salty. The silk worms, too.

In Mexico, they eat garlic-fried, cactus-eating worms, yummy! They even put them in beer or tequila! Back to Thailand. I had great fun watching my son discover his first fried takkataen and silk worms then asking for more later. And it was too bad that he had to discover ant's eggs in Mexico, not from his homeland. Umm, he didn't like that so much. He enjoyed more the experience of harvesting the eggs from the ant-hill.

Markus, what've you decided about mosquitos?

Wait a minute! I said that, not Paul_AU. Admitedly dumb, but not as dumb as Paul's comment about females! http://www.thailandguidebook.com/iB_...ons/tounge.gif

ferrit, try you'll like it ¾ÂÒÂÒÁÃѺ»ÃзҹáÁŧ»èͧ¼Ñ´ Åͧ´Ù¡Ô¹áÁŧ»èͧ¼Ñ´¹Ð¤ÃѺ

Hey, this is a awesome site on thai bugs http://www.thaibugs.com/

yummy. http://savvytraveler.publicradio.org/show....1.shtml

[quote]
Giant bugs banned from menu of Thai restaurants

Swiss authorities have banned giant bugs from the menu in local Thai restaurants.

The ban has come following the discovery of packages of ten of the insects in an Asian food store in Basel, Swiss daily Blick reported.

The giant water bugs, which can grow up to eight-centimetres-long, are considered a delicacy in the Far East Asian country.

But Swiss interior ministry officials have ruled the bugs off the menu as they are not on the country's list of edible animals.
[quote] http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm...=news.quirkies

There appears to be a little confusion about the placement of quotations and the accompanying text. The quote usually comes before the text that discusses or challenges what is stated in the quotation. Thus, Delawang was not quoting Elephantspike in reference to the text above the quote, but rather the text below the quote. Peace http://www.thailandguidebook.com/iB_...icons/cool.gif

Haha did you think I would like silkworms because my user title is 'As Smooth As Silk' ? http://www.thailandguidebook.com/iB_...icons/wink.gif

Anyway, what do they taste like?

we don't get mosquitos here in scotland, tho we do have another nasty wee bug called a midgey(like a very very small fly type thing), specifically you get them in late afternoon and at night in the summer and they travel in swarms and eat you alive, they are tiny things, more of a nuisance than anything else, but can be really irritating at times, you don't eat them either!! actually eating bugs would be considered a big no in most of western europe i think, tho i'd personally try anything once!!

joe