Cacao beans are used for making chocolate, not coffee. Coffee plants which produce coffee beans are pollinated by bees. Personally prefer chocolate to coffee but like bees a lot more than midges.
When I read the title, couldn't understand how anyone would like Midges. Have had some here. Also a lot in southern New Zealand. They drive you mad. They even get through face/head fly nets unless they are super fine mesh.
Other half ended up with a red backside using a bush toilet, with a painful result.
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The article that attracted my attention seems to be BS - probably written by someone having an episode with midges. Thought that I had stumbled on something interesting. Best I can recall it was on a naturalist site to do with loss of bees.
Just by the by, I don't have a problem with midges, yet my kids and bride are tormented by them. Sandflies also.
Some years ago I sponsored a couple of British tradespeople because i could not get suitably trained operatives here in Au. The wife of one of the eventual immigrants was badly bitten by sandflies while acclimatising in the Port Stephens area.
I gave them a paid month and accommodation to settle in.
She was badly bitten and was in agony - huge grape-size swellings covered her body - she spent 4 days in hospital!!
Sandflies also dont bother me - maybe 70-odd years in the surf has either toughened my skin or imbued me with a resistance to their poison?
Strange but welcome.
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-- Edited by Brodie Allen on Thursday 28th of August 2025 08:25:39 AM
