02/07/2026
Mozzie Maggie at it again
Summer in Spain is wonderful... sunshine, long evenings, amazing food... and mosquitoes that seem to think you're an all-you-can-eat buffet. 🦟
This week we've been sharing the office with one particularly determined little freeloader who'd apparently decided our non-residential building made the perfect home. She wasn't paying rent, didn't contribute towards the coffee fund, and seemed far more interested in the staff than the clients.
After one too many completely uninvited snacks, we're afraid to report that her tenancy has now come to an abrupt end. We can confirm the eviction was swift, final, and unlikely to be overturned on appeal.
Her brief stay did get us talking about malaria and how it actually works.
A lot of people think mosquitoes create malaria, but they don't. It's actually caused by a tiny parasite that can live inside certain mosquitoes. If that mosquito is infected, it can pass the parasite on through its saliva when it bites. Strange, isn't it? Nature certainly has a weird sense of humour.
Thankfully, malaria isn't something people normally need to worry about from mosquitoes in Spain. The bites are usually just itchy, annoying, and always seem to happen in exactly the spot you can never stop scratching.
So now it's over to you...
What's your best defence against Spanish mosquitoes?
Do you swear by a particular repellent? Have you found a gadget that actually works? Or have you simply accepted that every summer you're destined to donate a pint of blood to the local mosquito population?
Share your best tips below. If there's something that genuinely works, we're all ears... and hopefully not much else.
