Anyone else having a problem with skeeters in their yard?
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Tue Sep-04-07 08:26 PM
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Anyone else having a problem with skeeters in their yard? |
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It was fine until a few days ago. Now they're all over the goddamn place and eating me alive when I want to sit on the swing.
I'd almost rather live in the desert or the arctic than put up with those sons-a-bitches.
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Tue Sep-04-07 08:27 PM
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Their bites suck worse than skeeters.
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Tue Sep-04-07 08:34 PM
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There's plenty of biting motherfuckers in the yard and I hate them all. I don't ask their names when I'm slapping them off my legs and running away.
I have plenty of bug kill 'em juice, but I'm not supposed to use that because we have a kickass organic garden with plenty of giant pickles and tomaters and squishy-squashes and herbs (in america we don't pronounce the 'h'. We call 'em Erbs) and zooo-keenies and stuff like that.
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Tue Sep-04-07 08:39 PM
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16. Oak mite bites look more like spider than skeeter bites. |
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The center is hard and red and there is a largish red area surrounding the bite. They can last for up to two weeks. And they itch like hell. Thank the gods for cortisone cream and a Benadryl at night.
I got one last Friday sitting at an outdoor restaurant. I don't even have a yard.
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Tue Sep-04-07 08:36 PM
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12. Yes, but nothing beats the bite of a DeerFly. |
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They take chunks out of your flesh.
The winged bastards.
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Tue Sep-04-07 08:39 PM
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15. I had one of those MFers trying to eat me on the bike trail last month. |
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Why do they always go for the ankles?
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Tue Sep-04-07 08:47 PM
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18. Worst bite of any flying insect. |
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Horseflies are child's play compared to a deer fly.
Big nasty bastards.
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Tue Sep-04-07 08:27 PM
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2. Got any standing water anywhere? |
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Tue Sep-04-07 08:37 PM
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I think it might just be Skeeter Week.
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Tue Sep-04-07 08:28 PM
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3. i no longer have a yard |
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Tue Sep-04-07 08:28 PM
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4. they are worse in the desert and arctic |
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Tue Sep-04-07 08:35 PM
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Let Gawd sort out the rest.
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Tue Sep-04-07 08:29 PM
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6. I have a patch of concrete that is supposedly called a yard. |
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I think it is like 5000 square feet. My 2200 square foot house and garage sits on it.
No skeeters in sight. But we do have palmetto bugs.
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Tue Sep-04-07 08:32 PM
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7. We've had nary a one all summer |
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Thanks to a dragonfly population explosion in the spring. So, there's lots of draggies, but no skeeters, and it's amusing watching the cats trying to catch them.
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Tue Sep-04-07 08:36 PM
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11. We've had a couple of dragonflies but they're fat and lazy. |
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Tue Sep-04-07 09:04 PM
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20. Very few left, actually |
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But they were peppy and friendly little guys, mostly the smaller yellow ones with a few of those great big blue mothers thrown in. Now the yard has been taken over by clouds of flying aphids.
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Tue Sep-04-07 08:35 PM
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9. Are you serious?? I live in MN lake country. Skeeters are my neighbors. |
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They are a constant up here. Big suckers, too.
That being said...the sons-a-bitches chewed me alive this weekend. On the ankles.
Itch itch itch.
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Tue Sep-04-07 08:37 PM
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14. Take 'em back, ya Northland bastards! |
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Tue Sep-04-07 08:47 PM
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I literally do 'standing water patrol' every day. They breed in standing water and there is some somewhere I guantee you.
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Tue Sep-04-07 08:48 PM
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19. In the house, in the yard, everywhere |
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Tue Sep-04-07 09:10 PM
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21. Its been bad this year |
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No idea where any standing water might be but I think the adults are in the pine needles under our trees. We're working on clearing it out
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Tue Sep-04-07 09:13 PM
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23. That's the "Helluvit" as my grandad would say. |
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We don't have any standing water anywhere, but they're still tearing me up, the bastards.
I'm ready to nuke the whole yard.
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Tue Sep-04-07 09:12 PM
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22. How long since the last big rain? |
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We have had cool temps lately and the lawn in freshly cut, so the mosquito problem has dwindled, but we had a ferocious summer.
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Tue Sep-04-07 09:17 PM
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Tue Sep-04-07 09:33 PM
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That's not allowed.
The problem is the past two weeks of rain we had. Now, all the floodwater-stage eggs are hatching record numbers. The mosquito population should fall as the 7- to 14-day lifespans draw to a close and the post-storm broods begin laying eggs that will lie dormant until next spring.
You can't poison the yard, but feel free to poison yourself. There's a can of Off in the office closet in the box on the floor and probably another one in the garage.
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Tue Sep-04-07 10:06 PM
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26. Bzzzzzzz. zzzzzt zzzzt. zzzzzzz. |
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