mosquitos........

[ropensaddle]

actually all the animals meet in a few spots over there when it gets green. all having babies. i saw pics of caribou look like they have mange from the bug bites. black swarms of em. bring your Off in a Solo sprayer lol

You would die in the swamp in one night if you were not prepared
for it. Prolly the same in siberia but it don't get any worse than
boggy creek. If the cottonmouths or gators don't get ya the skeeters
will! My kinda place bull frogs as big as frisbies and bass in the ten pound
range are not uncommon!

 

[ClimbinArbor]

Gold, I will give ya half I am not greedy, we could get a few grapple trucks with just a little of it.

can you say Bullfrog Disaster Relief?

had some legs at the casino the other night and man where they good. brother in law keeps talkin bout it. i better put him to boatin. he owes me for that busted tree he had anyhow lol

 

[(WLL)]

i like to sit on the porch and watch the dragon flies swoop up the skeeters.

 

[Pete M]

hahaha, well today I had one of those days where I was cutting a load of hedging right on the coast, and was being divebombed non-stop by seagulls. I though my 300+ mosquito bites were bad enough, but had I not been wearing my helmet then today I would be sporting big holes in my head from beaks. They were so protective of their young today, nesting on people's rooftops and all keeping an eye out for each other. Probably 15 to 20 gulls swooping down at me non-stop, they didn't give a hoot about the noise I was making with the cutter!

 

[ClimbinArbor]

lol now thats funny pete. get yourself a tennis racket for them jobs lol

 

[ropensaddle]

Try buffalo gnats out you will love skeeters after them. Another
I hate is a blisterbug they suck.

 

[ClimbinArbor]

theres a fly down in OK, i dont know about AR, or KS. but its got a green back, and bites like a motherf$#%er.

oh and lets not forget horseflys........... my old man has a horse that will eat them if you catchem for him lol

 

[pdqdl]

I will gladly trade you our chiggars fer your skeeters:monkey: we have them both bad this year. Seed ticks are bad also water is a hatching agent and
the whole midwest has got too much this year.

Don't kid yourself ! Kansas and Missouri may be the chigger capitols of the world.

I got totally eaten up by chiggers in a blackberry patch when I was about 4-5 yrs old. I have a VIVID recollection of what that was like: the solid red band around my waist (the underwear seemed to stop them) didn't turn into individual red spots until it got as low as my privates.

Since then, I never even get an itchy spot when they bite me. Same for mosquitoes, bees, wasps, poison ivy, etc. I guess I am exceptionally lucky in that respect, because a lot of my guys really suffer from that kind of stuff.

On the other hand, I have WAY more accidents/injuries than most folks...

 

[pdqdl]

theres a fly down in OK, i dont know about AR, or KS. but its got a green back, and bites like a motherf$#%er.

oh and lets not forget horseflys........... my old man has a horse that will eat them if you catchem for him lol

That green back fly sounds like a deer fly. We got 'em in KC, and they are mean. Fast little buggers, they don't seem to care if you try to swat them. LARGE proboscis, when they bite, you will howl !

 

[ClimbinArbor]

+1 pdq deer fly it is. suckers hurt lol. bout the same as the horse files

 

[ropensaddle]

That green back fly sounds like a deer fly. We got 'em in KC, and they are mean. Fast little buggers, they don't seem to care if you try to swat them. LARGE proboscis, when they bite, you will howl !

We have those look like delta winged fighters but a blister bug
is same color but smaller and the bite similar times 10 and a blister
comes after the bite!

 

[ClimbinArbor]

the green ones are delta shaped too. the same fly will keep coming back for more too, theyre ruthless.

sorry pdq gotta spread some rep around i guess lol

 

[pdqdl]

No doubt about the "delta wing" description to the deer flies. I consider them the worst of the biting flies. They definitely cause more misery in this country than all the communist delta wing fighters you could point at.

 

[dontbasap]

Too Late ?

a print-out was going around our Palm Beach church about putting old, original Listerine in an empty spray bottle for insect abatement. It mentioned the store brands as well for $1.89. South Florida has more than it's share of the B-52's. We tried it at home and it works fantastic. Kills them suckers in mid-air, too ! The article says to spray doorframes but not the doors, dog houses, pet beds, thresholds etc. Go gamble two bucks and see for yourselves.

 

[ClimbinArbor]

will giv e that a try sometime

 

[Jumper]

I thought they would be frozen? I guess tundra would be similar to swamp
when summer hits and the whooly swamp is the worst skeeter place I
have seen. Where the legend of boggy creek and the swamp ape lives
miles of cyprus and willow spanish moss and cottonmouths.

The little buggers are even buzzing around my office today. We are not tundra here, but Muskeg, and it is wet in spots for sure! They survived the -47F weather last winter just fine obviously. Supposed to be low 90s next week so guess our four weeks of summer has finally arrived!

 

[Curbside]

The skeeters are so bad out here we need to set up an AA gun at each job site just to keep some juice in our veins All I hear when I step out of the truck is bzzzzz Free all you can eat buffet bzzzzzzzzzz

 

[Scots Climber]

I've just finished a job for my Parent's in law here in Massachusetts, and I've counted 54 bites so far..., and that's just the ones I can see >.<

I was wearing Lifesystems 100% Deet, just like I used to use in the Army and, as before no f*****g effect what so ever

 

[ropensaddle]

I tell ya what thermacells work on skeeters I have seen them repel night
fishing and deer huntin!