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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: bad Chad on September 18, 2022, 06:14:28 PM
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Here where I am in central IL, they are fairly aggressive, however, they are the weak little kind, that don't make a big impact, they suck, but could be much worse. So far the tiny little bastard bitting nats haven't been bad either, I hate them far more, as when the stick you, it itches for days.
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Middle of the Midwest there are virtually none of either where I live. Shhh!
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Not bad at all here, lots of dry no rain periods this summer.
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I'm one of the lucky ones, they don't like my blood. Could be my smoking.
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My guess is you are just built too tough for them little bastards!
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Not as meaty as in years past, but good sauted with butter and fresh garlic, and tossed with sliced roma tomatoes.
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Few mosquitoes here in WV because there's little standing water.
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I'm one of the lucky ones, they don't like my blood. Could be my smoking.
IDK if any scientific research has been done into this, but apparently mosquitos are repelled by some human scents.
One of my professors claimed that when he was young the mosquitos bit him constantly; after he spent 2 summers working in a paper mill they never bothered him again. He also said that none of his coworkers at the mill were bothered by mosquitos, either. Maybe some chemicals they were exposed to worked as a repellent.
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Here on the outer Cape there have been some big washovers of Cape Cod Bay into the fresh water areas of the National Seashore. There is a new type of saltwater mosquito - very large, very numerous and very aggressive. I heard that they are so bad that one person went outside and came right back in looking like he was wearing a sweater.
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Located on Lake Buchanan 70 miles NW of Austin, Texas. No mosquitos but occasionally we have those tiny flying bugs the try to get into our ears and noses. My hearing aids keep them out of my ears.
Ralph
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Extremely rare in Seattle WA
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We dont have any here in southern Arizona. Its too dry!
Rick
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Like most others, a dry summer = far fewer than past years here in northern NJ
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Not a problem here in southern Ohio this year as much as they have been in the past.
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Although we live in the high desert, (The Verde Valley of Arizona), we still have little, tiny "SKEETERS"...and they can be annoying... :rolleyes: :shocked: :huh:....but NOTHING like where I grew up in the Mid-Hudson Valley.
Where there is water of any kind....there will always be a...."SKEETER ISLAND!!" :laugh: :grin: :wink:
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Not much problem in the Ozarks, we send them over to Oklahoma where they belong.
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Bad, Chad...
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Dunno.
I asked one how he was, but I couldn’t understand the answer.
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Lightest year in memory here in Okla. Perhaps they got the disease we can't mention? :wink:
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Funny I was just observing w my daughter how few there are here…we were standing outside on a hot summer night under a huge streetlight. Nothing, no bugs, no spiders, no moths were flying around a light source at night…nothing in south central kahneckticut. Then I found this…
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There seems to be a lot less bug splatter on the car and bikes the past couple of summers .
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Haven't noticed mosquitos much unless I am in the deep woods. Probably means we are breathing more chemicals from the trucks spraying the ditches.
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Funny I was just observing w my daughter how few there are here…we were standing outside on a hot summer night under a huge streetlight. Nothing, no bugs, no spiders, no moths were flying around a light source at night…nothing in south central kahneckticut. Then I found this…
(https://i.ibb.co/HTv3Hyz/CA09-FC79-0-ED8-423-A-80-BB-B2454-F9852-BB.jpg) (https://ibb.co/HTv3Hyz)
Not good..Mother Nature is talking to us. We had better listen..
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Better than usual. But the chiggers were bad and the bites lasted longer.
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C'mon now....Little winged VAMPIRES!! from..."SKEETER ISLAND!!" :rolleyes: :shocked: :rolleyes: :shocked: :huh: :laugh: :grin: :wink:
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IDK if any scientific research has been done into this, but apparently mosquitos are repelled by some human scents.
One of my professors claimed that when he was young the mosquitos bit him constantly; after he spent 2 summers working in a paper mill they never bothered him again. He also said that none of his coworkers at the mill were bothered by mosquitos, either. Maybe some chemicals they were exposed to worked as a repellent.
I worked in a paper mill in my teens. They still love me and seem to be hungriest in the evening when I want to sit on my deck. :(
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Some of it might be due to heat and drought. When we finally got a big rain here a few weeks ago, we never got the expected onslaught. I did get a few bites of some crawlers, might've been chiggers but they seemed to heal faster than that. But the mosquitoes were much less a pest so far this year.
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Not too bad in southern WI, but we were in Grand Marais during the summer and it was the worst I've ever seen. Didn't go out w/o netting. Someone up there told me that mosquito eggs are dormant until the time is right, so we were getting two years worth. Dunno if it is true, but it felt right.
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I have been in 26 states this Summer and not once have I been plagued by mosquitoes. I don’t know what that means regarding climate. I think I was only caught in the rain once (Marquette MI) while traveling.
Bill Lovelady IS
Eskimo Spy
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I have been in 26 states this Summer and not once have I been plagued by mosquitoes. I don’t know what that means regarding climate. I think I was only caught in the rain once (Marquette MI) while traveling.
Bill Lovelady IS
Eskimo Spy
It means you weren't where the mosquitos are. Were you camping in the woods near water in all 26 states?
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It means you weren't where the mosquitos are. Were you camping in the woods near water in all 26 states?
I spent 1 night at Illini state park on the South bank of the Illinois River atMarseille, IL.
Didn’t even put up my tent. The next night on the West Bank of the Missouri near South Soiux City NB. No tent. Just lucky, I guess. In general, bugs are not bad west of the Great Plains.
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I have been in 26 states this Summer and not once have I been plagued by mosquitoes. I don’t know what that means regarding climate. I think I was only caught in the rain once (Marquette MI) while traveling.
Bill Lovelady IS
Eskimo Spy
That's pretty definitive. Something going on here. Glad we were able to make this motorcycle related.
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Maybe everyone 's blood got tainted last year somehow and the mosquitos caught something from us for a change and killed off the population. :thumb:
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Funny I was just observing w my daughter how few there are here…we were standing outside on a hot summer night under a huge streetlight. Nothing, no bugs, no spiders, no moths were flying around a light source at night…nothing in south central kahneckticut. Then I found this…
(https://i.ibb.co/HTv3Hyz/CA09-FC79-0-ED8-423-A-80-BB-B2454-F9852-BB.jpg) (https://ibb.co/HTv3Hyz)
they've gone into hiding cause so many hipsters are eating bugs now instead of domestic animals.
luckily they are little so they can hide almost anywhere.....
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I have been in 26 states this Summer and not once have I been plagued by mosquitoes. I don’t know what that means regarding climate. I think I was only caught in the rain once (Marquette MI) while traveling.
Bill Lovelady IS
Eskimo Spy
I know your secrets. You either take a lot of garlic, or you take a lot of Vitamin C, or you eat a lot of beans..... or all of the above!
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QUOTE: I know your secrets. You either take a lot of garlic, or you take a lot of Vitamin C, or you eat a lot of beans..... or all of the above!
GARLIC
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VITAMIN C
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BEANS
A proper FART of the right amount of METHANE and other smelly ingredients will kill anything!! :laugh: :grin: :rolleyes: :shocked: :huh:
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Maybe everyone 's blood got tainted last year somehow and the mosquitos caught something from us for a change and killed off the population. :thumb:
Either that, or, the mosquitoes that access social media are wising up and they're thinking "Drinking that blood might make me contract something like Mad Cow disease. I'm going vegan! Plus it'll look great on my Facebook page!"
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QUOTE: I know your secrets. You either take a lot of garlic, or you take a lot of Vitamin C, or you eat a lot of beans..... or all of the above!
GARLIC
(https://i.ibb.co/fkMGJds/Screen-Shot-2022-09-21-at-4-58-46-PM.png) (https://ibb.co/fkMGJds)
VITAMIN C
(https://i.ibb.co/vdnmQ94/Screen-Shot-2022-09-21-at-5-00-08-PM.png) (https://ibb.co/vdnmQ94)
BEANS
A proper FART of the right amount of METHANE and other smelly ingredients will kill anything!! :laugh: :grin: :rolleyes: :shocked: :huh:
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Maybe everyone 's blood got tainted last year somehow and the mosquitos caught something from us for a change and killed off the population. :thumb:
Interesting thought -
We've had very few mosquitos here this year, maybe because of what you say, or maybe because it's been relatively dry.
But I got flea bites in the spring, and ticks a couple of times.
There's usually something trying to get at us, not only mosquitos!
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Our local newsrag in Seattle claims we just had the driest Summer on record. Rain is in the forecast for the 1st weekend in October.
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The other possibility is that none of us are as attractive as we used to be decades ago.
Even the mosquitoes aren't interested in us anymore.
Now that I think about it, Hot Chicks rarely hit on me anymore.
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