Tom Holland is discussing blood sucking parasites in Scotland. No, not Scots...
I read up on the Mosquito (a bit) in 2001 - that it served no purpose to any other life and were better expurgated like the Variola. I cannot remember the name of the book. I did take in that another book, Carson's Silent Spring, was evil. DDT for the win, baby.
This insect ranged to English-Speaking lands; the Bad Air which they bring was rife in Somerset, during the Saxon times which John RR Tolkien made his study.
The Southwest Saxons did not name these bugs with a Spanish name - obviously. Tolkien never approved the Spaniards' name for them. And I think he's right, that when a Saxon squished a biting mosquito - mosquita, to be technical - he rated her a Stechmücke. A midge-ette.
I think that is why Prof T. even bothered with a "midge water" pond, just set between the Shire and the riven dell, with no geological reason to exist there. Tollers was just making a point, that we Anglo Saxons should return to monke basics. Tolkien was good for that. He should probably be sainted.
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