Can any Norwegian member shed some light on this ?? www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article1643522.ece

...deer ked (Lipoptena cervi) is common on reds here also tho without any noticeable effects:

http://jcm.asm.org/cgi/content/full/42/11/5320

Sure can, sheed som light that is!!

We have here in Sweden as well in Norway, and Finland I belive two parasites that feed on moose.

One is called the moose fly, a small tick like creature that actually just eats the pelt/hair on the moose, rendering it to have patches of less hair or no hair at all.

During cold winters the eggs of the moose flies die and the problem is limited.

However after a few years of varm summers and not so cold winters the situation can become difficult, a peltless moose will freeze.


The Moose fly/tic doesnt feed of the moosese blood however a full out infestations of the pelt will render the animal weak, cold, unable to sleep, to starve due to the fact that I can´t find peace/ rest enough to feed.

They are rather nasty critters.


Best regards Chris

It will be very interesting to see if this fly will do some damage on the caribou in our mountains. If so there will be hard for the caribou to survive in the hard winter climate.

I really hope the low temp in the mountains is to much for these little flies.

Moose and Caribou has wery similar pelt, the hairs are much alike.

it´s therefore very plausible that the hated fly can eat of there pelt as well.

However I don´t know.

The cold will do the caribou well.

For rådjur or roe deer in english the flies are merely and nuisace hence that ther jaws/ or what ever can´t chew of the pelt from them, they will only suffer from the discomfort of having something crawling on them..

Best regards Chris

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Originally posted by 9,3x74R:
It will be very interesting to see if this fly will do some damage on the caribou in our mountains. If so there will be hard for the caribou to survive in the hard winter climate.

I really hope the low temp in the mountains is to mush for these little flies.

A bit off-topic but the moose-fly Husqvarna 98 mentioned are really the worst freakin nuisance we have in the woods here. I hunt a lot in the eastern Finland near Russia, where those nuisances have arrived from (among many others ) and where they are most numerous in here.

They get to your face, hair, ears, nose and in such a large numbers, that while hunting, your other hand is fully occupied in trying to pick them out of you all the time.

And, of course, they are really hard to kill too. You need to crush them by your nail, if you squeeze them between you fingertips, they will recover and crawl under your sleeve in no time. Full-body mosquito-jacket seems to be the only way to keep them even a bit further.

If they stay on your skin for say a minute, they start biting you, and whereas the bite itself won't hurt that much, they get really itchy after a while. Nasty little buggers. Be happy if you don't have them where you are hunting.

So right JHT, that is one of the reasons I wear net hodd, net gloves while hunting, having things crawling in your nose is not promoting good shooting form.

/C