MOSQUITOS!!!!!!!

[caseydog]

I don't know how it is where you live, but here in Dallas, the mosquitos are out of control this summer. All the rain earlier this summer grew a bumper crop.

I'm working at my desk in my home-office, and my ankles start to itch. THERE'S A %*#@ MOSQUITO UNDER MY DESK HAVING DINNER!

I am now wearing OFF inside my house!

What's it like where you live?

[Kens]

Around dusk under the trees its bad.

[pgwilli]

Uh...mosquito's?
I think they're all down at the wetlands getting munched by the bats!

[asianflava]

Yup, it's much worse than years past. There was an article in the paper talking about it. It said that due to the rains we had early in the Summer, the number of mosquites are up but the threat of West Nile Virus is actually lower.

[Miriam C.]

Yup, it's much worse than years past. There was an article in the paper talking about it. It said that due to the rains we had early in the Summer, the number of mosquites are up but the threat of West Nile Virus is actually lower.

Wonder if that means there isn't enough West Nile to go around and some skeeters are unarmed.

Deet doesn't seem to faze the skeeters here and we have a bunch this year. After a long drought they are a surprise. Lot of spiders too.

[Larry Messaros]

We are not doing to bad this year. It was pretty bad in May, but when the bats arrived near the end of May the skeeter population went down. We are right on the lake, so it doesn't affect us as bad as the inland folks.

The elementary school (when it was open) had the mosquito as the school mascot!

[ARKPAT]

Here is a Bat House Project for those who want to get rid of the buzzing menices. Along if you search some good facts about BATs.


Pat

[Ira]

Not bad by me at all--but I think they spray. I imagine it's torture in certain parts of the state.

Here's a great little story about a guy who built a bat tower way back on lower Sugarloaf Key to kill mosquitos and attract tourists:

http://www.florida-keys-pages.com/interest.htm

[Mike C.]

Speaking of West Nile Virus, we have had two people in the four-state area die this summer. One was an elderly man and one was a baby.
We have spraying Off and several other repellants on every time we go
out.

The chiggers and oak tree mites seem to be particularly bad this year as well.

[Claw]

I hate using Deet but as the sunsets the little pests get very hungry and it is the only solution if outside and then after a while they let up. I always take a sponge bath before I settle in for the night in my Tear Drop so if you see a naked guy sitting on a picinic table with a bucket, soap and cloth it just me washing the repellant off.

[D.J.]

This is what I use .

[Roly Nelson]

Mosquitos, what are mosquitos..........

Roly, from ol' hot and dry So Calif

[Larry Messaros]

Mosquitos, what are mosquitos..........

Roly, from ol' hot and dry So Calif

Roly,

At least the skeeters only take blood from us!

Isn't it termite country down there? Can Deep Woods OFF protect the tear?

[Roly Nelson]

Ok, you've got a good point there, Larry.......

Roly