A SUMMER EVENIN’

[twisteroo]

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Count Barkula might just need his own thread.

The mosquito situation is the same here, you can barely go outside without gettin eaten alive, it has to be full hot sun or they just tear you up.
It is the woods and tall grass near by, having like the 3rd wettest month of June on record, and that 3 inches of rain we got on Friday don't help anything.

[Havoc]

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Try dryer sheets, you know those little fabric softener sheets, they actually do repel the little blood suckers.

Bug lights at night set away from where you are will also cut their population considerably in a localised application.

those little suckers use ultra violet to find you, UV killing soap in your laundry will also help, light or white clothes washed in UV killing soap and the rest will help with your problem.


beat the little suckers at their own game. we have thumbs.

[Twitchin Kitten]

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I used to use Avon Skin So Soft sprayed on the skin to repel them. It works great too, so much so that equine supply houses started selling it to help repel flies and mosquitoes off the horses!

Off now makes that little clip on spray thingy. I haven't tried it yet because we're actually having a good year regarding bugs here but they say it works great. I'd give that a go. I think SC Johnson makes it and they have a coupon on their website.

[twisteroo]

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I have a thing of very toxic spray that I use when I just can't take it any more. I mean if it does not pollute the ground water when you spray it on your arm, what good is it really gonna do against a bug?

[Twitchin Kitten]

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I have no problem with eradication of the entire mosquito population. That's one bug I do not see any beneficial merit to it's existence.

[twisteroo]

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The mosquitos in my yard are so big.......
How big are they??
The mosquitos in my yard are so big that they can stand flat footed and fuck turkeys!!!
Ba-da-bump!!

[Rhubarb]

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We have the 'Blandford Fly' here.
Rumor has it that it escaped from Porton Down and was on military transport going to the Blandford Camp. It is a tiny tiny black bug, so small it can hardly be seen or felt when it bites you. It caused terrible problems all along the Stour River, where it lived on the river banks. After a few years it had reached Christchurch the mouth of the river and beyond the river banks into peoples garden ponds, or into marshy areas, including where we were living just after we got married 30 years ago.

It only flew about 6 inches off the ground but if you got caught, your joints ached all over, the site of the bite would swell so much and at worse the skin could split. Usually it was a case of a trip to the doctors for antibiotics unless you realised from the blood on your ankle did you know you'd been caught.
I got bitten twice, the second time I treated it at once and only needed a few days off work.

It got so bad eventually the river was sprayed and the fly appeared to have been iradicated.

Except, this year (May is worst) we have seen it back again. The season is longer too. The Pharmacist I work with once a week comes from Blandford (so has become an expert on the symptoms) and his wife got bitten on the face this summer while she was weeding. She was blind in one eye for a week with the swelling, and he had started treating it as soon as he saw the blood on her face. She didn't even feel the bite at the time.