New here...English guy in Sweden...

[silverclaws]

Not being a Swede,when I first came here did'nt think about the wildlife but but you soon meet up.Damn those elk are huge but ok if you just stop and leave 'em alone,wild pigs are extremely dangerous if you cross their path especially if they got young 'uns..plenty of deer but fortunately not seen any bears..they're way up north with the wolves.

Yes, the elk are big( think the turnips call them elju), one nearly had me when I was out after the swampa, I had just found a nice bunch of chantarelle when heard a crashing through the bushes and this bloody great big moose went thundering past, one of our party must have scared it. At the torp there was a elk path across the land and seeing them bimble by in the morning, yet the wolverine under the barn must have had one judging by the big thigh bone that kept getting dragged onto the mowed bit of land. I kept chucking it back in the forest, for it to be dragged out again, and this was a bloody big bone.

But one thing I remember very well about Sweden's forests in the summer, the daily application of citronella in the vain hope the mygga will stay away, those buggers take no prisoners with the English.

But Skane aquavit is just about my favourite drink in Sweden, served ice cold.

 

[Bikebandit]

Yea the mozzis can be a problem sometimes ..must be cos of all the lakes,they get bigger the further north you go.. a mozzi MYGG OFF anti mozzi stick or roll on is the best Ive used here,always take take it with me camping.
Ticks are another hazzard :roll:

 

[silverclaws]

Yes, ticks, pick them up in the forest, they can lead to lyme's disease, and removal of the things is kind of specialised, have to screw them out.

But regards the mozzies, the Swedes develop a natural immunity to them, probably from getting eaten alive as a sprog. The last I was there, I got dirty looks from my step sisters for using one of those electrified tennis raquet fly swatters on them., hear the buzzing and swipe around until you see the flash of burning insect.

 

[dbmtb]

We have them in Denmark too. Get bitten and it swells up to the size of a golfball. Usually just take an anti-histamine tablet and it gets less inflamed.

Ticks.... Nasty little buggers. And not just in the woods. We're constantly de-ticking our cats when they've been in the meadow at the bottom of the garden.

Elks, cantarelles. Like something out of this...