Mosquitoes out already!

[Anonymous]

[:(!] Have any of you that live near Lake Michigan noticed that recently the mosquitoes have been out? I went train-spotting about a week ago and when I was waiting for some train action, I was being chased by blood-thirsty mosquitoes! I thought to myself that it is still Spring and those blood-thirsty insects are loose. All because of the constant raining around the bottom of Lake Michigan. The flooding of the Milwaukee River is a perfect breeding place for the mosquitoes. Tell me what you think of the mosquitoes everywhere.

[Anonymous]

Yep, those blood thirsty buggers are out in force already this year and the flooding type rains of this and last month sure arent helping any one bit.

I was up in the Saukville / Port Washington area of Wisconsin last Saturday and man was I bitten alive. It would have helped it I remember to bring along some spray but I didnt know they would be this bad already in the season. I figured a few here and there and nothing but a few swats of the hand would take care of that but boy was I wrong.

Back home in Janesville, WI the mosquitos have been out for a couple of weeks now but they are no where near as bad as what I experienced last Saturday. Yet anyways. From now on if I go out in the early evening Im coming prepared with a few cans of deet [(-D]

Die you mosquitos!![:D]

[eolafan]

Here in Illinois at this time of year think the skeeter is the state bird!

[Anonymous]

i was out around Savanna and Galena, IL this weekend and i must of been bit 3 dozen times. i sprayed OFF by that seemed to atrat them more. But nothing will stop me from railfanning.

[bnsfkline]

dbld1218, You are brave, espcially when West Nile Virus out there

[Anonymous]

Its the same in New Jersey. All those darn mosquitoes. Ive got bitten like 30 times this week.

[JoeKoh]

Mother nature dropped a lake in a park off my back yard so there will be plenty of misquitos around.at least those cicadas are dying off now.
stay safe
Joe

[Anonymous]

Just make sure you use a spray that has Deet in it.

Apply it before you go out.

Seems to work for me, dark clothes are also something to stay away from try to wear white...wear long sleeves and pants and a hat.

That should help.

[mudchicken]

What, no junebugs yet? (or have the cicadas back east driven everything else off!)

[Train Guy 3]

Part of my train watching gear now is a candle..... it seems to work.

[miniwyo]

OH CRAP!!!!! NOT THE MOSQUITOS AGAIN!!!! I already gave blood this year! :) :) :)

But seriously does after getting all my horses vaccinated for WNV i got to thinking why do we have a vaccene for horses but not humans?? Kinda makes you think.

[Puckdropper]

miniwyo, we have a vaccine for horses and not humans because many humans act like part of a horse (As in he's a real horses...)... (Think about it.)

Mosquitoes go in? I thought they stayed out all winter in Hennepin, IL (20' above the Illinois River.)

[Mookie]

Mookie bug here! Mosquitoes have no value - except as occasional bird feed. June bugs are those ugly white grubs as adults - ugh - but cicadas - now there is something nice. They don't bite, they climb trees and give you an old dry skin to wear on your shirt and they aren't nearly as noisy as my next door neighbors! And they can add crunch to your diet.....

[Dough]

LMAO, Puck. I was thinking the same thing. I would be jumping for joy if they were just now coming out in the middle of June...It can be brutal down here in GA.[:D]

[Anonymous]

Here's what you gotta do... if you have one of them there antique carbureated cars- you take the air cleaner off, fire up the engine (that's en-jine!) and slowly pour a quart of tranny fluid down the throat of that there carbinator- but keep the r's up or yull stall er! Pretty soon y'all won't have no skeeter problem, maybe a FD problem though. You may hafta do this several times during yer outdoor activities but it works! Trust me- I had the FD at my door twice for this years ago!

[Kozzie]

Ahhh! [;)] So that's where all our skeeters have gone! It's too cold now downunder, so they're headed north for you "up over' folk! [}:)] hee hee [;)] [}:)]

[Modelcar]

....Yea, but your "cold" isn't even very cold is it Kozzie. Certainly not like Indiana cold.

[jeaton]

Here it's called winter and orange barrel season, except this year the barrels have disappeared. Hauled off tp the breeding grounds?

[Puckdropper]

All the orange barrels are around Peoria, IL. They have got some roads just torn up there! (I-74 construction is affecting everything!)

[Kozzie]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Modelcar

....Yea, but your "cold" isn't even very cold is it Kozzie. Certainly not like Indiana cold.

Ahhh! modelcar [:0] You've got me! [;)] At least for us here in Queensland. [:)] You lot would laugh at what temps we call winter. [(-D][(-D][(-D][(-D]

But it does get cold down south in Victoria, Tasmania and parts of New South Wales. Their temps would be closer to what you Hoosiers put up with [:0] [:0]

But the skeeters have even left our corner of Queensland..hee hee...and that's the main thing! hee hee [(-D][(-D][(-D][:D][:p]

Dave

[edblysard]

Dan,
You listening to these guys whine about skeeters?
Grew up in the swamp called Houston, trade ya skeeters any day of the week!

Macguy has your answer, DEET.
Most of your comercial products, Deep Woods Off, stuff like that, has a 2% concentration of deet in it.
Our railroad issued a small, 4oz pump bottle to each of us, 52% deet, the rest inert ingredients.
Spray it on your cloths, not a single bite.
You cant buy this in a store, but you can read the labels on the products sold, and find the highest concentration.

Warning for most folks, try any product with deet in it on a small patch of skin, inside forearm first, before applying to the rest of your skin.
Quite a few people have a very bad reaction to more than 2% deet, from skin ra***o headaches and bloody noses, so test first.

Weird little fact: only the female skeeter buzzes, and she feeds the most![:D]

Ed

[Mookie]

QUOTE: Originally posted by edblysard


Weird little fact: only the female skeeter buzzes, and she feeds the most![:D]

Ed

What's weird about that? [dinner]

[dharmon]

QUOTE: Originally posted by edblysard

Dan,
You listening to these guys whine about skeeters?
Grew up in the swamp called Houston, trade ya skeeters any day of the week!

Macguy has your answer, DEET.
Most of your comercial products, Deep Woods Off, stuff like that, has a 2% concentration of deet in it.
Our railroad issued a small, 4oz pump bottle to each of us, 52% deet, the rest inert ingredients.
Spray it on your cloths, not a single bite.
You cant buy this in a store, but you can read the labels on the products sold, and find the highest concentration.

Warning for most folks, try any product with deet in it on a small patch of skin, inside forearm first, before applying to the rest of your skin.
Quite a few people have a very bad reaction to more than 2% deet, from skin ra***o headaches and bloody noses, so test first.

Weird little fact: only the female skeeter buzzes, and she feeds the most![:D]

Ed

Yeah, them Texas skeeters.......have to swat them with 20 gauge. Gets you trained up for bird season though.

As far as DEET goes......nothin like having some on your fingers then taking a big old furry dip of Copenhagen........talk about you head rush....as strange loss of sensation...

[dharmon]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Mookie

QUOTE: Originally posted by edblysard


Weird little fact: only the female skeeter buzzes, and she feeds the most![:D]

Ed

What's weird about that? [dinner]

Yeah..cause the females in my house make most the noise too......

running for cover[:0]

[cherokee woman]

Walt says that while he was still in the Guard, they took a summer camp at Ft. Campbell
KY and the mosquitoes down there (he swears this, too) have Red Crosses on their
wings. And the military insect repellant sucks swamp water!!

[dharmon]

QUOTE: Originally posted by cherokee woman

Walt says that while he was still in the Guard, they took a summer camp at Ft. Campbell
KY and the mosquitoes down there (he swears this, too) have Red Crosses on their
wings. And the military insect repellant sucks swamp water!!

That's why you chuck the military issue stuff away and get dome deep woods off.


Nuthin beats a Maine mosquito for tenacity though. They may be small, but their poor and malnourished so when they get a meal, they eat like it's a buffet.

[BNSFNUT]

Mosquitoes are bad here in the Southern Tier of NY. I just use a lot of deet based repelent. There is a product that is usually sold in the Adirondaks for repelling black flies (these things make moquitoes look tame) called Woodsmans Dope. It works well for mosquotos but also repells small furry animals, birds. the paint on your car and peaple for about 300 yds[:D]

[Anonymous]

Think of it this way....She needs to feed too.
"SHE WANTS TO SUCK YOUR BLOOD AND NEEDS TO FEED!" hehehehehehe.

[tree68]

Is "Skin So Soft" still formulated so it repels Skeeters and kin? (That's kin of skeeters, not your family[:p])

[Mookie]

Tree - I use SSS and can repel most anything! Kin included! It seems to work ok, but you do have a tendency to slide out of the front seat of the car until it really soaks in......

Mook