summer is finally here

[InfluX]

but with a price. we get 24 hours of light in exchange for mosquitos the size of hummingbirds. i shit ye not, these bastards are huge. some summers they seem to avoid me. other summers i may as well bathe in deet. i live in an apartment so it isnt really worth buying a mosquito magnet and with the coils i've yet to see results.

best methods for bug repellant?

and then afterwards. the bites. *makes a face* i once counted thirty two all in one go, i practically had to sleep standing up. (i'm one of those awful people who cant just 'leave it alone') youre best methods of coping?

[Valve1080i]

Get one of those Mosquito Magnets. They work well.

[mikey]

run hot water over the bites, as hot as you can stand. it draws the histamine out and will give you some relief, at least enough to sleep for a while.

[FlamingGlory]

Wear long sleeves and pants. Light colors supposedly help but I only own black and khaki. Take benadryl if you get bit.

If you dont want to concentrate on the mosquitos you could always just get some poison ivy. That'll take your mind off the bites. ~_^

[April40]

Where the hell do you live? Hell?

[fly]

Put deodorant on the bite. It eliminates the itchy part. No idea why.

Where the hell do you live? Hell?

iirc, alaska. WHERE ARE THE POLOAR BEAR PICS???

[mikey]

Put deodorant on the bite. It eliminates the itchy part. No idea why.




it has to be antiperspirant, not just deodorant. and it works because it keeps the moisture in the skin from evaporating.

[FlamingGlory]

it has to be antiperspirant, not just deodorant. and it works because it keeps the moisture in the skin from evaporating.
Works for PI too... strangely. I'm curious if she means black flies or mosquitos though. They have a more northern habitat, they are bigger, there are millions of them from may-july and the bites keep bleeding for a few days and hurt/itch like a fucker.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/Black_fly.jpg/800px-Black_fly.jpg

[fly]

Black fly and horse fly bites. OMFG

[BadMojo]

but with a price. we get 24 hours of light in exchange for mosquitos the size of hummingbirds. i shit ye not, these bastards are huge. some summers they seem to avoid me. other summers i may as well bathe in deet. i live in an apartment so it isnt really worth buying a mosquito magnet and with the coils i've yet to see results.

best methods for bug repellant?

and then afterwards. the bites. *makes a face* i once counted thirty two all in one go, i practically had to sleep standing up. (i'm one of those awful people who cant just 'leave it alone') youre best methods of coping?

You must live in Alaska. Where? Drool and I will be up there for a week and a half at the end of June.

[Sarcasmo]

Vinegar doesn't smell good, but it makes the itch go away forever.

[FlamingGlory]

Vinegar doesn't smell good, but it makes the itch go away forever.
After Bite is way more effective although it feels like molten lead.

[InfluX]

Works for PI too... strangely. I'm curious if she means black flies or mosquitos though. They have a more northern habitat, they are bigger, there are millions of them from may-july and the bites keep bleeding for a few days and hurt/itch like a fucker.



believe you me these are mosquitos, plain and simple. the mosquito is the state bird of alaska. for some strange reason i know my pests and these arent even remotely like black flies.

[InfluX]

You must live in Alaska. Where? Drool and I will be up there for a week and a half at the end of June.


fairbanks. although i road trip all over. whereabouts and what the hell for?

[FlamingGlory]

believe you me these are mosquitos, plain and simple. the mosquito is the state bird of alaska. for some strange reason i know my pests and these arent even remotely like black flies.
I live in a swamp and I think the black flies ate all the mosquitos is all :(

Either way, get a block of dry ice, put it in a far corner of your yard. CO2 attracts them like crazy. Eliminate standing water. Youll never win though, ever. They just wont die, I doused almost an acre of standing water in petroleum products and torched it, they were back in a week.

[fly]

I live in a swamp and I think the black flies ate all the mosquitos is all :(

Either way, get a block of dry ice, put it in a far corner of your yard. CO2 attracts them like crazy. Eliminate standing water. Youll never win though, ever. They just wont die, I doused almost an acre of standing water in petroleum products and torched it, they were back in a week.
Was this before or after torturing small animals?

:shifty:

[FlamingGlory]

Was this before or after torturing small animals?

:shifty:
I have never tortured small animals. THey have always been afforded a swift merciful death.

[eileenbunny]

Benedryl before bed usually helps me.

[BadMojo]

fairbanks. although i road trip all over. whereabouts and what the hell for?

We will mainly be in Anchorage. Trips include Denali, Seward, Whittier, and Katmai. A friend of mine lives there.

[fly]

I wanna go on an Alaskan cruise. :drool:

[Thorn Bird]

I wanna go on an Alaskan cruise. :drool:

[ERage]

Here is an fun way to keep the kids busy and take care of bugs at the same time:

http://us.st11.yimg.com/us.st.yimg.com/I/brucemedical_1895_12866645

[InfluX]

run hot water over the bites, as hot as you can stand. it draws the histamine out and will give you some relief, at least enough to sleep for a while.


that's such a simple solution that i never thought to try. it actually worked quite well yesterday. you're awesome

[ChikkenNoodul]

When I mowed my lawn in NH (Had a lot of stagnant ponds/swamps nearby) I had to wear long sleeves, pants, and one of them beekeeper helmet-type net things even when it was 90 out

No amount of bug spray, wipes, magnets, etc. would keep 'em off of me :(

I was looking into getting hold of some DDT before we moved.....

[ERage]

Man, the last couple of days I've tried to go out in the back yard and I've been bombarded by biting flies. They have never been around my yard before. Nasty things that just hone in on you as soon as you go out. Even deet doesn't keep them away.

I wonder if the mild winter we had is going to make for a worse bug season this year.

[elpmis]

no bugs out here in Maryland

LOL

[Arátoeldar]

Besides the mosquitos we get the Mayfly and Gnats every year. :mad:

Edit: Spelling :o

[ChikkenNoodul]

Up at the 'ranch the swallows and bats eat copious amounts of mosquitos, making it somewhat bearable

They don't do much about the black flys or horseflys though :( but those you can practice sporting clays with they're so friggin' huge

[JPatrick]

Mostly all we get is mosquitos.
Swarms and swarms and swarms of mosquitos.
They dont like me too much tho. I dont think theres enough blood in my alcohol stream for their taste.

[ChikkenNoodul]

Mostly all we get is mosquitos.
Swarms and swarms and swarms of mosquitos.
They dont like me too much tho. I dont think theres enough blood in my alcohol stream for their taste.
Unfortunately mosquitos up here have not only adapted to, but actually prefer the beer content

[elpmis]

Here is an fun way to keep the kids busy and take care of bugs at the same time:

http://us.st11.yimg.com/us.st.yimg.com/I/brucemedical_1895_12866645
we could market that product as a sex toy

could call it the "Super Titty Blast Waffle Maker"

[ERage]

we could market that product as a sex toy

could call it the "Super Titty Blast Waffle Maker"

Slogan:

Lap it, slap it, and zap it!

[Thorn Bird]

i just started taking garlic because the smell in my blood is supposed to repel the damn mosquitoes. i can't even walk to my mailbox without getting bit, and i'm not exaggerating.

[Sarcasmo]

i just started taking garlic because the smell in my blood is supposed to repel the damn mosquitoes. i can't even walk to my mailbox without getting bit, and i'm not exaggerating.


It's cuz you're so sweet, sugar.






Or you're a mouth-breather.

[ERage]

i just started taking garlic because the smell in my blood is supposed to repel the damn mosquitoes. i can't even walk to my mailbox without getting bit, and i'm not exaggerating.

this can work but you have to take so much of it you would be pumping garlic oil through your veins. We used to give our dog garlic pills for this reason (this was in the '80s before frontline products were available). We gave a 20 lb. dog a double adult human dose before it was effective. A human would have to eat half a bottle to get that kind of dose.

[Pandora]

Man, the last couple of days I've tried to go out in the back yard and I've been bombarded by biting flies. They have never been around my yard before. Nasty things that just hone in on you as soon as you go out. Even deet doesn't keep them away.

I wonder if the mild winter we had is going to make for a worse bug season this year.
http://georgiafaces.caes.uga.edu/storypage.cfm?storyid=2822

Excerpt:

Gray is an agricultural research coordinator in the entomology department of the UGA College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. He rejects the thought that a warmer winter will bring more mosquitoes.

“I’m not a big believer that the winter temperatures have a huge effect on the following year’s mosquito population,” he said.

He corrects the idea that a drier summer will keep the population down, too. He does say, however, that the mild winter may have allowed mosquito populations to develop earlier in the spring.

What is going to affect mosquito numbers, he said, is how much standing water the state accumulates in the spring and summer. That’s what really determines how many mosquitoes will develop, he said.

In 2004 and 2005, Georgia was swamped with hurricane rains. As a result of river flooding in the bottomlands, native mosquitoes had more places to breed. While a dry summer will keep down some of the woodland and floodwater mosquitoes, it also causes more concerns late in the season, Gray said.

“The Southern house mosquito that transmits West Nile virus likes to breed in storm drains,” he said. “When we’re not having rain, when it gets dry, the storm drains become stagnant, and this mosquito is apt to develop in large numbers. And that’s a real concern for us.” Georgia had 24 cases of West Nile virus in 2005. Two people died.

Heavy rains during the past two hurricane seasons kept this population of mosquitoes down. “Consequently, it’s probably helped contribute to the lower numbers of West Nile virus,” Gray said. “The West Nile virus is still around and is something we need to be concerned with.”

Hurricane flooding isn’t the only breeding ground for native mosquitoes. And neither are retention ponds. In fact, pests such as the black-and-white-striped Asian tiger mosquito typically fly only about 100 yards from where they develop. If Georgia residents are finding many of these pests in their homes and yards during daylight hours, Gray said, “you or someone nearby is typically producing them.” Asian tiger mosquitoes are container breeders. “It’s so important that homeowners and communities take responsibility for their own mosquito problems and empty out standing water in containers and debris around their homes,” he said.


He gives other tips on keeping mosquitoes off:

• Wear light-fitting, loose, light-colored clothes. Mosquitoes are attracted to darker colors, as are most of the biting flies. The light-colored clothing will help reduce attractiveness.

• Use insect repellents properly, whether it contains the active ingredient DEET or the newly approved ingredient picaridin.

• Eliminate standing water. This is something that needs to be done year-round, not just in April and May.

[*Fuxx Burger*]

Wow we've been lucky here in Portland- I haven't been bit yet (nor have I really seen any)

[KNYTE]

Thermite takes care of pesky pests* and standing water quite nicely.



























Vietcong*

[fly]

When I mowed my lawn in NH (Had a lot of stagnant ponds/swamps nearby) I had to wear long sleeves, pants, and one of them beekeeper helmet-type net things even when it was 90 out

No amount of bug spray, wipes, magnets, etc. would keep 'em off of me :(

I was looking into getting hold of some DDT before we moved.....
We still make it for those developing nations!

[JPatrick]

Thermite takes care of pesky pests* and standing water quite nicely.

Vietcong*


Even if I did have a vietcong infestation in my backyard, I dont think Id use fire to get rid of them. An ak47 would be acceptable, but not fire.

[Sarcasmo]

Even if I did have a vietcong infestation in my backyard, I dont think Id use fire to get rid of them. An ak47 would be acceptable, but not fire.


I have a small vietcong family under the shed in my backyard. I give them Reeses peanut butter cups in exchange for rice and hand-woven straw hats. (And a little bit of sucky sucky from the 14-year-old daughter.)

[Thorn Bird]

It's cuz you're so sweet, sugar.
Or you're a mouth-breather.


i'll take the first response, thank ewe. and it doesn't matter what you breathe or how you breathe it. those bastards are EVERYWHERE. :mad:

[Thorn Bird]

this can work but you have to take so much of it you would be pumping garlic oil through your veins. We used to give our dog garlic pills for this reason (this was in the '80s before frontline products were available). We gave a 20 lb. dog a double adult human dose before it was effective. A human would have to eat half a bottle to get that kind of dose.


weeeeeeeeeell, i'm also taking it for mah heart, but i'm hoping that it'll help a LITTLE with the mosquitoes.

[ChikkenNoodul]

We still make it for those developing nations!
Yeah, but the FedGov doesn't consider 'Chikkenland' to be a developing nation.....yet

[FlamingGlory]

Yeah, but the FedGov doesn't consider 'Chikkenland' to be a developing nation.....yet
Diesel is a good defoliant. We are rigging up a little something that I'll make a thread about later. :D

[Fat Burger]

Don't ever move to Uganda. I counted 62 bites on my right leg once.

[fly]

Even if I did have a vietcong infestation in my backyard, I dont think Id use fire to get rid of them. An ak47 would be acceptable, but not fire.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHHA

[mikey]

speaking of summer, i went to my grandparents for a cookout yesterday. they live in the city but my grandfather has a good two acres, not including the greenhouse, surrounded by a cemetary on one side and the back with a machine shop to the other side. it's basically deserted on weekends and holidays.

'round about 7:30 i went for a walk with a beer in both hands. i saw three groundhogs poking around way in the back, groundhogs are bad for the "garden" (garden takes up just about an acre). mind you my grandfather is 78, has had triple bypass and this is about the time he settles in for the evening. i told him about the groundhogs when i made my way back to the house. and he pops up and said 'i have smokebombs. you want to go groundhog huntin'?' SURE. i waited for a moment while he gathered his shoes and smokebombs. i was watching some people play cards and he yelled from the door, 'YOU READY?' 'what are you two running off for?' he hells back, 'WE'RE GOING GROUNDHOG HUNTING.' on our walk he grabs two pitch forks and tells me, 'here's your weapon.' he had smoke bombs in his back pocket, a pitchfork in one hand and a .22 in the other.

^that's the family i love :D

[InfluX]

...i'm speechless.

[Sarcasmo]

speaking of summer, i went to my grandparents for a cookout yesterday. they live in the city but my grandfather has a good two acres, not including the greenhouse, surrounded by a cemetary on one side and the back with a machine shop to the other side. it's basically deserted on weekends and holidays.

'round about 7:30 i went for a walk with a beer in both hands. i saw three groundhogs poking around way in the back, groundhogs are bad for the "garden" (garden takes up just about an acre). mind you my grandfather is 78, has had triple bypass and this is about the time he settles in for the evening. i told him about the groundhogs when i made my way back to the house. and he pops up and said 'i have smokebombs. you want to go groundhog huntin'?' SURE. i waited for a moment while he gathered his shoes and smokebombs. i was watching some people play cards and he yelled from the door, 'YOU READY?' 'what are you two running off for?' he hells back, 'WE'RE GOING GROUNDHOG HUNTING.' on our walk he grabs two pitch forks and tells me, 'here's your weapon.' he had smoke bombs in his back pocket, a pitchfork in one hand and a .22 in the other.

^that's the family i love :D


My grandpa used to do that with black people, bless his hate-filled heart.

[FlamingGlory]

My grandpa used to do that with black people, bless his hate-filled heart.
I'd use 7.62x51... Cant be too careful.

[Arátoeldar]

speaking of summer, i went to my grandparents for a cookout yesterday. they live in the city but my grandfather has a good two acres, not including the greenhouse, surrounded by a cemetery on one side and the back with a machine shop to the other side. it's basically deserted on weekends and holidays.

'round about 7:30 i went for a walk with a beer in both hands. i saw three groundhogs poking around way in the back, groundhogs are bad for the "garden" (garden takes up just about an acre). mind you my grandfather is 78, has had triple bypass and this is about the time he settles in for the evening. i told him about the groundhogs when i made my way back to the house. and he pops up and said 'i have smokebombs. you want to go groundhog huntin'?' SURE. i waited for a moment while he gathered his shoes and smokebombs. i was watching some people play cards and he yelled from the door, 'YOU READY?' 'what are you two running off for?' he hells back, 'WE'RE GOING GROUNDHOG HUNTING.' on our walk he grabs two pitch forks and tells me, 'here's your weapon.' he had smoke bombs in his back pocket, a pitchfork in one hand and a .22 in the other.

^that's the family i love :D
My father usually baits a have a heart trap and then shoots them with a .22. He dumps the body across the creek. With squirrels and other animals he takes up into the mountains and releases them.

[SemperFly]

http://www.tabasco.com/arts_pavilion/tv_ads/tabasco_mosquito_ad.cfm

[KNYTE]

My grandpa used to do that with black people, bless his hate-filled heart.

:lol:

Can't.

Stop.

Laughing.

edit: Pit foram noob.

[lemon_fresh]

I wanna go on a Gay cruise. :drool:

there, fixed that for ya.

[b_sinning]

Mosquito Magnet $260 @ Sams

http://www.samsclub.com/shopping/navigate.do?dest=5&item=336945


The county has a person on the payroll that has the job of measuring mosquito denisty. This person wears clothes that attract bugs and counts the number of bites they get in a set time period and how many bugs they see land on them. If the numbers are too high then they spray that area. What a shitty job. Here is a page with a video of him at work. http://www.cnn.com/US/9907/16/FRINGE/mosquito.monitoring/

[kiwi]

Luckily the mosquitos aren't bad here, unless you go up the mountains, than you have to deal with mosquitos and horse flys.

[snoogit]

Mosquitos can be a problem here as well. But I find the past few years the Mosquito pop has fallen a little bit, and meat eating wasps have taken their place in the food chain :(

Theres more wasps now then there are Mosquitos and them sumbitches aint nice at all!

[Pandora]

This one is for all you mosquito haters:

http://www.diyhappy.com/quick-and-dirty-mosquito-trap/


ps. Apparently you can alter it to work for those meat lovn' wasps too!