BS: 1st mosqitoe of the new summer

Subject: BS: 1st mosqitoe of the new summer
From: GUEST,punkfolkrocker
Date: 03 Jun 07 - 12:36 AM

just killed it.. squashed against my computer monitor screen..

took at least an hour tracking and stalking it..

little flying f@cker got one of my toes before i realised..

but its dead now..

bastard blood sucking little *&%$ !!!!

g'night

Subject: RE: BS: 1st mosqitoe of the new summer
From: Peace
Date: 03 Jun 07 - 12:38 AM

Yeah. NOW a few hundred will attend the wake for the dear departed.

Subject: RE: BS: 1st mosqitoe of the new summer
From: Ebbie
Date: 03 Jun 07 - 12:57 AM

LOL Hey, in Juneau, Alaska our first crop has come and gone. Give it another week and the new babies will be here.

Subject: RE: BS: 1st mosqitoe of the new summer
From: Peace
Date: 03 Jun 07 - 01:00 AM

Been swatting the little darlings for days now.

Subject: RE: BS: 1st mosqitoe of the new summer
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 03 Jun 07 - 03:46 AM

Days? I was swatting mossies in April! Mind you, we did have a very hot, dry April. My little pond was positively wriggling with the little buggers.

Why bother trying to stalk a mossie? It'll find you first so just lie in wait for it...

Why do some people get bitten to shreds and others only get one nip?

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: 1st mosqitoe of the new summer
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 03 Jun 07 - 04:43 AM

Had my first encounter of this year with the notorious Scottish 'Midgie' on Friday night.
Liz, I find it best to sit beside a 'midgie magnet' friend, that helps keep them away from me.
G.

Subject: RE: BS: 1st mosqitoe of the new summer
From: jacqui.c
Date: 03 Jun 07 - 07:20 AM

I've already been bitten a number of times this season - they don't seem to touch Kendall. I get a bad reaction - big welts and very itchy as well. I can't even use the repellents - they make me quite ill.

Subject: RE: BS: 1st mosqitoe of the new summer
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 03 Jun 07 - 08:01 AM

We seem to be having a relatively skeeter-free spring here in the drought-ridden southern US. All the wet places they usually lay their eggs are dried up. Unfortunately, the drought doesn't seem to have had a similar effect on yellow flies, horse flies, dog flies, midges, gnats, or fire ants. If you just can't get through a day without a painful insect bite, one of them will be happy to oblige.

Subject: RE: BS: 1st mosqitoe of the new summer
From: Flash Company
Date: 03 Jun 07 - 10:42 AM

Mosquito fly high, mosquito fly low,
If I get my foot on your neck you won' fly high no more1

Jesse Fuller (Kickin Mule)

FC

Subject: RE: BS: 1st mosqitoe of the new summer
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 03 Jun 07 - 11:24 AM

Just a matter of time until the first case of 'West Nile' of the summer appears here.

(And a merry and happy June 03 to you, too!)

Subject: RE: BS: 1st mosqitoe of the new summer
From: Little Hawk
Date: 03 Jun 07 - 11:25 AM

I've seen thousands of them in the past month, and killed a couple of hundred at least. I find that as long as I don't scratch the bites at all then they are no big problem. They itch for a couple of minutes, that's all.

When the dachshunds go outside they are followed around by a cloud of mosquitoes, but it doesn't seem to bother them much. I don't know if the mosquitoes are succeeding in biting them or not, but they're certainly trying to.

They also attempt to bite the lawnmower after it's warmed up.

Someone should invent a device that beheads them all within a radius of one hundred yards by using ultrasound or something like that.

Subject: RE: BS: 1st mosqitoe of the new summer
From: Ebbie
Date: 03 Jun 07 - 12:24 PM

It wouldn't be long before some psychotic adapted it for human use, Little Hawk. :)

Subject: RE: BS: 1st mosqitoe of the new summer
From: GUEST,Scoville in Texas
Date: 03 Jun 07 - 02:11 PM

We get the first mosquitoes of late January around here. Sigh.

Subject: RE: BS: 1st mosqitoe of the new summer
From: Peace
Date: 03 Jun 07 - 04:34 PM

We have an official mosquito season here. There is no bag limit, but no one is allowed to hunt with anything under a #5 shot. To make it safer, trappers have to use conibears because the leg hold traps make removing the mosquito a tricky proposition. Usually they are still alive, and they can drain three liters of blood in less than 45 seconds.

Once the season is closed (it goes from January 1 to December 30), good hunters hand in the collars that have been attached to the critters so their 'territory' can be determined. Forestry has been doing a study for years and during the past ten or so have been able to implant micro-chips into about 10% of the mosquito population. the latest data seems to say that last year's goose migration which seemed to come in two parts was actually just one of geese and the other was a swarm of mosquitos from northern Alberta. Sometimes it is difficult to make out which is which when they are more than 3000 feet up.

Anyway, y'all do what you have to to keep 'em away. I know that often people exaggerate the size of mosquitos, so I'll be up front. The one in the picture was shot by a guy named Gotcha Ihope from up near High Lever. He had it mounted because it outweighs the average by about 45 pounds. Biggest we've encountered (except for a few recorded in the literature but with no eye witnesses or corroboration).
Picture here.

Subject: RE: BS: 1st mosqitoe of the new summer
From: ranger1
Date: 03 Jun 07 - 06:16 PM

Jacqui, did you try the all-natural one I gave you?

Subject: RE: BS: 1st mosqitoe of the new summer
From: open mike
Date: 03 Jun 07 - 08:45 PM

Cheryl Wheeler has wrotten a song..an ode to the first mosquito of hte year...in 1998. Apparently she has not recorded it and the lyrics are
not on her web site. I was hoping i would find them and post them here.

http://www.cherylwheeler.com/songs/mosq.html

anyone else heard this song ?

Subject: RE: BS: 1st mosqitoe of the new summer
From: bobad
Date: 03 Jun 07 - 09:19 PM

Peace

I get "403 Forbidden" at your link. That must be some m...f...'ing mosquito that they aren't allowing us to see.

Subject: RE: BS: 1st mosqitoe of the new summer
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 03 Jun 07 - 09:58 PM

When the dachshunds go outside they are followed around by a cloud of mosquitoes

Mosquitoes are a carrier of heartworm that affects mainly dogs, but occasionally cats, in my area. (Ticks are also suspects.)

You're turbo-weazels just ain't got much of a way to swat them, but they most likely do get bit.

John

Subject: RE: BS: 1st mosqitoe of the new summer
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 04 Jun 07 - 03:50 AM

Limpit has a Nintendo DS game 'Animal Crossing'. Basically it's a virtual world where you can catch fish and insects, grow fruit trees and flowers or collect furniture and currency. It has seasons that are obviously geared to yours PFR, because as of Friday, it became possible for your little virtual person to be bitten by a little virtual mosquito.

Unlike the real world though, you can catch these with a net and sell them in the 'local' store.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: 1st mosqitoe of the new summer
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 04 Jun 07 - 08:31 AM

Watch your manners in those virtual worlds. The FBI has been there.

It seems to be getting pretty rough in some of them.

Of course, maybe Limpit can corner the black market in mosquito beaks, and be virtually rich?

John

Subject: RE: BS: 1st mosqitoe of the new summer
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 04 Jun 07 - 09:38 AM

We have a 12-month mosquito season here. Any time it warms up enough and there is standing water they'll emerge. My dogs are on heartworm prevention year-round.

We have BWLs annoying critters plus tons more mosquitoes this year, with all of the rain. You can't keep up with the standing water lately.

Alas, my misery lately is because I took the weed-whacker to the poison ivy--and the ivy won. Little splatters on jeans and long sleeves went through the fabric and I'm still breaking out from it.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: 1st mosqitoe of the new summer
From: JennyO
Date: 04 Jun 07 - 11:04 AM

I get "403 Forbidden" at your link. That must be some m...f...'ing mosquito that they aren't allowing us to see.

Yes, it certainly is, bobad. I got the 403 forbidden as well (at first), but I've noticed with some of those that if I hit the arrow next to the URL and reload the page, quite often it loads properly and you can see the picture - as this one did for me.

That is one big ugly critter there, Peace. I'd hate to meet it on a dark night!

Subject: RE: BS: 1st mosqitoe of the new summer
From: SINSULL
Date: 04 Jun 07 - 11:12 AM

Haven't been bitten yet but I have killed a few. I am still confused as to why I had a huge slug climbing up the screen door mid-February. Gross.

Subject: RE: BS: 1st mosqitoe of the new summer
From: MMario
Date: 04 Jun 07 - 11:18 AM

Sinsull - nobody warned you about the Snow Slugs when you moved Down-East?

Subject: RE: BS: 1st mosqitoe of the new summer
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 04 Jun 07 - 12:25 PM

I tweaked and wiggled that URL and still it won't open. I'm assuming it is a grizzly bear being sucked dry by a mosquito?

I have been mowing my back yard in stages because we've had so much rain there hasn't been much opportunity to mow. Now that there are gaps in the clouds the grass is tall and very wet. And a cloud of mosquitos hovers. I swatted several as I worked for a while this morning (coffee break, when you work at home, means you can put in a little hard labor before heading back to the 'puter). Twenty minutes of mowing didn't make a lot of progress, but the dogs have a few more square yards of shorter lawn (and they can see the muddy fire ant mounds that I knocked down with the mower).

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: 1st mosqitoe of the new summer
From: Peace
Date: 04 Jun 07 - 02:41 PM

It was much like this one but had more meat on it.

Subject: RE: BS: 1st mosqitoe of the new summer
From: JennyO
Date: 04 Jun 07 - 11:44 PM

Try this one. Same picture as Peace's, but on the web page.

Subject: RE: BS: 1st mosqitoe of the new summer
From: Bill D
Date: 05 Jun 07 - 05:07 PM

The mosquitoes grew purty big back where my Daddy came from, he told me. One hot summers day, two of 'em got hold of old Jake Johnson.

"So...what shall we do?", said the first one, "Shall we drain him here, or carry him back in the swamp first?"

"I think we'd better finish him here," said the 2nd one, "If we take him back there, those big guys will probably take him away from us!"

Subject: RE: BS: 1st mosqitoe of the new summer
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 05 Jun 07 - 11:00 PM

They are absolutely horrible this year. All of the rain may have passed, but now the gazillion gallons of standing water everywhere are allowing these suckers to breed in unheard-of numbers (for here, anyway). They're big and sloppy and bounce off of us and take big itchy slurps of blood. West Nile, here we come.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: 1st mosqitoe of the new summer
From: Little Hawk
Date: 06 Jun 07 - 08:36 AM

You haven't really lived until you've wrestled a giant slug.

Ebbie, I'm afraid you are quite right about the mosquito decapitator. (sigh)

Subject: RE: BS: 1st mosqitoe of the new summer
From: Sorcha
Date: 06 Jun 07 - 08:52 AM

Well, the Great Mosquito Killing Machine is driving up and down the alleys now. Problem is that it's killing everything that eats the skeeters. Caterpillers(no butterfiles), toads, birds,etc.

I miss my swallowtails and tanangers. Haven't seen a toad in 3-4 years.

Subject: RE: BS: 1st mosqitoe of the new summer
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 06 Jun 07 - 10:13 AM

My toads haven't come back to the side door this year. I usually have several who hover around on the step under the porch light to catch Junebugs. One was flattened in the road a couple of weeks ago (sob!) and the others haven't attempted to follow. They don't need the assist of the light this year. But we need them!

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: 1st mosqitoe of the new summer
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 06 Jun 07 - 05:57 PM

Damnation, it's not even midsummer, I've seen my first Christmas catalogue advert and I just dylsexed this thread title into '1st mistletoe of the new summer'.....

Ho ho ho hum.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: 1st mosqitoe of the new summer
From: Little Hawk
Date: 06 Jun 07 - 06:46 PM

There are still toads here, thankfully. I have to watch very carefully not to chew them up in the blades when I mow the lawn.

Subject: RE: BS: 1st mosqitoe of the new summer
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 07 Jun 07 - 01:12 AM

My porch is covered with idiot Junebugs, and no critter has moved forward to eat them. There is a huge bug surplus this year, that the birds and tarantulas and snakes and toads ignore this buffet. I'll keep an eye on the pit bull's poop--last year I found a lot of bug wings in her stool. Being stray for a while before she moved in here taught her a lot about scavenging!

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: 1st mosqitoe of the new summer
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 07 Jun 07 - 04:05 AM

Have those of you most troubled by mosquitoes considered erecting a few bat nests in your neighborhood?

Most of the poor things seem relegated to living in damp caves, and have to travel for miles for a meager meal. A comfy house in the suberbs, where there's plenty to eat would probably be sincerely appreciated, and I'm told that they work very hard at cleaning up small flying pests.

John

Subject: RE: BS: 1st mosqitoe of the new summer
From: RangerSteve
Date: 07 Jun 07 - 05:57 PM

Although they're jokingly referred to as the state bird here in New Jersey, I haven't seen one yet. They've lost their taste for me anyway, maybe it's the medications I'm on. Anyway, this may be an old wive's tale, but I read somewhere that eating bananas makes you more atractive to mosquitoes. I'll never know, as bananas are high in phosphorus and potassioum and forbidden in my diet. Someone else will have to do the experiment.

Subject: RE: BS: 1st mosqitoe of the new summer
From: Sorcha
Date: 07 Jun 07 - 06:40 PM

John, we have LOTS of bats here....mostly in church steeples and attics with holes in. Well, we 'used' to have lots of bats...til they started eating poisoned mosquitos.

Subject: RE: BS: 1st mosqitoe of the new summer
From: Ebbie
Date: 08 Jun 07 - 12:16 PM

Speaking of bats- well, I wasn't going to say anything but all the hardware stores around here sell them. For swatting the mosquitoes.