Mosquitoes

[pondoras box]

I have watched Lilo and Stitch, you cant eradicate the mosquito population! If we do the aliens will destroy the planet! It's like Pleakley says "educate yourself"

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=lilo+and+stit...ORM=VDQVAP
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[Bobnotch]

[nsracing]

Mosquitos and ticks I hate. And poisonous snakes.

I don't camp in the summer in the woods. If it is a campground, I will go.

But until it is late Fall is only time I will go into the woods for hunting. When all the above are gone for the season.

[babysnakes]

[Dan Hiebert]

Northern Maine - seems all the bugs bite. One of them green-headed horseflies will dislocate your shoulder when it lands on your arm, had one bite me when I was mowing the first summer I was here, thought the mower had kicked up a rock that hit my cheek. And there's even one species of dragonfly up here thats supposed to bite, but I don't know which it is, (yet?). 27 species of mosquitos, so there's something hungry just about all year 'round 'cept the dead of winter. BUT...no poisonous snakes to speak of. We spent summers in southern Illinois when kids, romping and frolicking through the DDT fog behind the trucks. In south Texas ("The Valley"), they would set DDT foggers off in the classrooms every morning, (not when they were occupied, thankfully). I recall the main scourge of DDT was what it did to birds' egg-shells, made them too thin to bear the birds' weight. The decline of the American Bald Eagle population back then was directly attributed to the stuff. Nowadays I just slather on something with at least 20% DEET, watch anything I touch made of vynyl or rubber melt, and go about my business.

[cdennisg]

Skeeters are mostly gone now around here, but I got nailed again (second time in a week) by a wasp this afternoon. They are hot and grumpy nowadays.

Winter will be here soon....
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[oprn]

I heard a ruckus around the back of the barn the other day and arrive in time to see a couple of mosquitoes just finishing off a horse. "Shall we eat him here or take him home?" one of them says. "We better eat him up quick now," says the other "Cuz if my big brother sees us he will beat us up and take him away!"


We have several varieties here too, some earlier in the year and some later. Some of them attack in the dark and some in full daylight. Usually mid day in the hot sun is the best time with the least critters. A wind helps keep them off too but there is a variety that seem to ride the wind for the extra momentum it gives their stingers!


I have seen them so bad here that the farmers had to shut off their tractors every 15 or 20 minutes and clean off the rad to keep them from overheating. I have hayed wet ditches when they rose up ahead of the mower just like the grass was on fire and smoking! There have been times that we could not go outside without rags over our faces to keep them out of our mouths.


This year has been pretty good as it has been dry and hot. The downside is that the crops and gardens are poor, horse and deer flies bad and grass fires common.


It's not a perfect world!

[olspeed]

just a typical day out fishing
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[cdennisg]

[Cusser]

On Naked and Afraid on the Discovery Channel, insect bites are the #1 reason people cannot finish the 21 days.

Yet thousands of folks apply to take this challenge.....
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[nsracing]

why in hell would anyone go into the woods completely naked? Humans have always covered themselves from the elements. And these supposedly smart neanderthals insist on going nude.

When you see live maggots living in your own skin, you know then you screwed up.

[Q-Dog]

[67rustavenger]

Here in western Orygun. We don't get many mosquitoes in the burbs.

But we do get flies. On any hot day. When I open my front door. It seems a fly is just waiting for the opportunity to get inside my cool living room.

I hate house flies with a passion. They don't bite. But they do bug the hell out of me.
I have used rolled up newspapers, fly swatters, fly paper streamers hanging from the ceiling and Raid (yuck). All the weapons are hit and miss.
The streamers take time to catch flies.
And the Raid is gonna give me an awesome twitching death.

Fast forward to last week. I ordered a Bug-A-Salt rifle.
Flies don't last more than 30 seconds inside my house now!

Kill flies. They are the bane of my existence!

Carry on hating Mosquitoes!
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[EverettB]

[Zundfolge1432]

Back in the 1960s Shell Oil Co. sold a product called “no pest strip” an oblong looking little box folks hung in their kitchens and common areas to kill skeeters. As I recall it worked but it must have been another dose of better living through chemistry because these too were removed quietly from the market. Ah yes the good old days

[Zundfolge1432]

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[Cusser]

[Zundfolge1432]

That show would be more interesting if they showed some T and A from time to time, just my opinion 😀

[Cusser]