Thanks for the feedback!

We have plenty of flying insects that sting and bite - but luckily enough they are not that poisonous, just a nuisance to cope with. Then there are ticks, too. Especially in early summer I have to remove ticks from the cats, two or three ticks a week. But the ticks haven't been that much a problem for me - I've had two or three of them in seven years. On coastal areas of Finland some of the ticks are carrying nasty diseases, and one can get chronically infected by a tick. It also seems that those diseases are slowly spreading, so maybe I'd better to be more careful with the ticks. To stay protected it is usually enough to just wear proper clothes when walking in the bushes or grassy areas.