How bad are the Mosquitoes by you?

[WillParkinson]

Here in Milwaukee I have to take the dogs out and rush them right back into the house. The porch is covered with blood-filled things. I've got bites on places I'd rather not talk about. When I brought Sadie in today I noticed one on the top of her nose that was already engorged.

So, what about your neck of the woods...?

[ceile]

1. Not too bad-yet.

We haven't had any rain in a while so the little bastards aren't out in full force yet.

[skygazer]

2. They've all been smoked out

By the 4 or 5 hundred wildfires that have erupted over the last few days.

I'll trade ya. :P

[Sentath]

3. Well

The guy installing my satellite suggested that we breed them competitively, I showed him one the length of my first thumb joint and as big as a pencil lead.

[Shell Beau]

4. They aren't mosquitoes here, they are pterodactyls.

Seriously, down here in MS, terrible!! Especially where I grew up in the delta on the mighty Mississippi!

[mcctatas]

5. Too funny....

as soon as I saw the thread title I thought "Bet ya the poster is from WI too, since saying 'by you' is soooo cheddarheadish", then I click and see "here in Milwaukee", I'm not bagging on ya, I say it too;)

[unsavedtrash]

6. aka the Alabama state bird.

pretty bad and it started early this spring.

[redqueen]

7. REAL bad.

Switchblades, greased-back hair, races on the weekends.

DANGEROUS!

[RadiationTherapy]

8. I live 7000 feet up in drought country.

What's a muss-kee-tow anyway??

[Arkansas Granny]

9. I have mosquitoes at my house to the point that I keep a can of insect repellant

on the porch so I can drench myself whenever I want to be outdoors. Without the spray, I wouldn't be able to work or sit in my yard at all. At my son's house, just a few blocks from mine, we see an occasional mosquito in the evenings, but usually a bug candle is enough to keep them at bay.

I seem to attract them anyway. There can be 100 people and 1 mosquito in a 1 mile radius and it will find me and bite me repeatedly.

[underpants]

10. I grew up in the marsh lands of Virginia

Hampton Roads featuring the swamplike town of Poquoson

Two mosquitoes came upon a guy asleep in a hammock

One mosquito said to the other one "Wanna take him back to the nest?"

The second mosquito says "Nah the bigger ones'll take him from us"

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At parties we used to burn old tires (seriously) to keep the mosquitos away. Imagine an 80's party with guys in OP shirts tons of Polo cologne and the smell of burnt tires.

___

We used to have to stop playing when the mosquito truck came down the street spraying....waited a few minutes and then went back out, don't think it affected me though *facial tick*

[mokawanis]

11. Terrible in Madison too

We're gonna get eaten alive in WI this summer, after all the rain we've had. I use deet when I'm planning to be outside for long periods.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

12. Surprisingly, not bad.

And I'm at the edge of the Everglades.

I'm guessing it's mosquito control.

What exactly mosquito control does to control the mosquitos, I have no idea.

[WillParkinson]

13. That's easy...

They outfit the male mosquitoes with teeny tiny condoms.

The ones that are too big for the other blood-suckers, Republicans.

[TrogL]

14. I saw one last week

They normally don't show up until July.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

15. I try to take the garbage out to the bin in the alley before sundown.

Otherwise my body would be quickly reduced to a dessicated husk.

[mia]

16. Not one in Miami...yet.

I was just sitting outside enjoying the fresh air. We've had lots of rain too.

[KitchenWitch]

17. Non existent.

But we get earthquakes, mudslides, wild fires, scorpions and rattlesnakes to make up for it.

[malta blue]

18. Well, it has rained consistently....

and my backyard is swampy/marshy/mossy...

Does this answer your question?

[Xipe Totec]

19. Not so bad, now that they're big enough to require ATC clearance. nt

[Elidor]

20. I live in bat country

And there seem to be very few skeeters so far this year.

I thank god that I don't live in Minnesota or Colorado anymore. My family was chased off the top of Castle Rock in Castle Rock, Colorado once by a black cloud that descended with the dusk. It was something out of a horror movie, a solid black mass of bloodsucking savagery. We ran for our fucking lives.

[malta blue]

22. I am thinking of putting a bat house in the woods on the perimeter

of my property - do you have one?

[Elidor]

23. I don't need one. I live in Cave central

Lots and lots and lots of bats around here right now. It's pretty common to see them out and about around dusk during the summer. I love bats. They're so cute and delicate. I guess I'd like to have a bat house, but my rental situation would make it difficult.

[malta blue]

24. aha -

well my yard is surrounded by woods and a swampy area, so I am thinking of putting a bat house at the very edge ...

I don't want the bats near the house because of the kid - my friends had a bat in their chimney and had to take the kid for rabies shots (not fun)

[Elidor]

26. I've been around bats for years

Up close and personal, underground. I've seen thousands of them and have never seen any obviously rabid ones (knock on wood). Did you know that if you disturb a hibernating bat, he or she probably will not survive the winter? Waking up just once can kill them. Very fragile little creatures. I give them a wide berth out of respect rather than fear. I don't bother them and they don't bother me.

However, I don't have kids. I'd probably be pretty protective in that regard.

[DarkTirade]

21. I'm 'bout to head out for a jog...

in a tank top.

I got no worries here.

[LaraMN]

25. If a mosquito bite could make you pregnant,

I would have about eight thousand babies in me right now.

[TK421]

27. I'm down by the river, so they can be pretty bad here...especially in

July and August. Citronella oil seems to work for me ( I just rub a few drops over my exposed parts and spread it out ). That seems to work

[NewEnglandGirl]

28. There aren't that many out here yet

but it seems like with the ones that are out, when they bite you, you get a big welt that lasts for days, worse than other years. :shrug:

[Skittles]

29. mosquitoes do not bite me

I think perhaps it is because of my chronically low iron count

[Richardo]

30. "By you"..."bayou". We got 'em.

Nothing like brackish nearly stagnant water to really get you a mess o' skeeters.

We also literally live in a 'neck of the woods' so it's even worse.

[mopinko]

31. i'm giving in on the propane mosquito trapping thing.

they are just horrible. even in the day time.
DH has been lusting after this gizmo for a while. like all gizmos, i do not share his lust. even though i had west nile virus, it seemed decadent.
but i am buying the next one i see.

[Digit]

32. Asian Tiger Mosquitoes are found all around the country and feed all day long

They are tiny little boogers which hitchhiked from Asia somehow, and will bite repeatedly. They know "somehow" to bite you on your elbows and back of your knees when you are not looking.

If you wear light colored clothing, they don't notice you as much. If I want to go outside to do yardwork, I take a high powered fan to keep them from landing on me. Of course I also am wearing socks with my tennis shoes, a white turtleneck shirt with long sleeves, and gloves.

I know of two people so far who are highly allergic to their bites and they have permanent scars.

I refuse to cover myself with pesticides as your skin absorbs that crap.

[Inchworm]

33. Never.. REPEAT NEVER

trip on acid in the Everglades during skeeter season...

PSA over.

:hi:

[Beausoir]

34. Oh...in MN lake country, we cook the really big skeeters for dinner.

live on a lake, in a forest and by a river. We get skeeters...but nothing like this year.

These guys don't just mosey on by and take a draw...they smack into you and hit it.

We do have bats..god bless 'em...and they fly in formation every night.

And we have huge dragonflies.

But this year, in particular, the skeeters are hefty and violent.

[raccoon]

35. Not bad in upstate SC--it's been so dry they're an endangered species. nt