Mosquitos already..

[skijay]

I was outside last evening power washing my house and I got bit twice. This is is the earliest that I have seen mosquitos in my area.

 

[Vortex]

I thought that also. I was cooking on the grill and I got bit a couple of times. My son had a bunch of bites. We need need new seasons Winter& Mid Winter. Freeze those pesky critters.

 

[ctenidae]

Mosquitos? Boy, you don't know squat about skeeters. Try growing up in Southern Arkansas, in a little town surrounded by flooded rice fields and bayous. Skeeters so big ya gotta keep yer pets indoors. My hometown spent more every year on mosquito control than they did on the police department. There were two kinds of cologne available- Off!, and Deep Woods Off!. Deet is the county beverage. People came from miles around when the Avon lady got a new shipment of Skinsosoft in. There's even a Mosquito Fest every year, to provide a counterpoint to the World Championship Duck Calling Contest and Duck Gumbo Cookoff.
Yessir, Stuttgart, Arkansas: Rice, Duck, and Mosquito Capital of the World!

That being said, this does seem a bit early for the little buggers. What we need is a good cold snap, prefferably a hard freeze, in the next week or so to knock them back before they have a chance to breed.

 

[ski_resort_observer]

:lol: skeeters up here laugh at Deep Woods Off....try Old Woodsman or a great all natural bug repellent made by a lady in Maine called Bug Off.

 

[Stephen]

My kids got to play in our backyard for the first time on Tuesday. We walked in the woods behind my house... just to see what was there. We got back, had dinner, and threw the kids in the tub to get the mud off. Good thing, cause we found a tick crawling through the hair on my littlest guy. We got him before he embedded, but it was scary to see one so soon!

-Stephen

 

[Jaytrek57]

Maybe we can have the mosquitos and ticks have a battle to the death? :argue:

I live near a bog in the middle of the Blue Hills. The mosquitos are back, but so are the bats, which is extremely cool.

 

[ski_resort_observer]

My kids got to play in our backyard for the first time on Tuesday. We walked in the woods behind my house... just to see what was there. We got back, had dinner, and threw the kids in the tub to get the mud off. Good thing, cause we found a tick crawling through the hair on my littlest guy. We got him before he embedded, but it was scary to see one so soon!

-Stephen

Wow..that is surprising. I have talked to folks from the lyme,CT area and they are afraid to go outside....that sucks..no pun intended.

There is stuff to put on our pets that keep them off...too bad they is not something for us humans. They say good bug repellent works but I don't know about that.

 

[ctenidae]

Soak your clothes in kerosene, tuck your pants into your socks, wear gloves with duct tape around teh cuffs and a beekeeper's hat.
That's about the only way to keep ticks off. Unfortunately, even that's not effective against chiggers. I hate the chiggers. And seed ticks.
:angry: :evil: :angry:

 

[ski_resort_observer]

Soak your clothes in kerosene, tuck your pants into your socks, wear gloves with duct tape around teh cuffs and a beekeeper's hat.
That's about the only way to keep ticks off. Unfortunately, even that's not effective against chiggers. I hate the chiggers. And seed ticks.
:angry: :evil: :angry:

Wow..that sounds harder and more dangerous then getting ready for a shuttle mission.... :lol:

 

[ctenidae]

Yeah, just be sure not to smoke.
Or stand near a campfire.

 

[MtnMagic]

Skeeters so big ya gotta keep yer pets indoors. My hometown spent more every year on mosquito control than they did on the police department. There were two kinds of cologne available- Off!, and Deep Woods Off!. Deet is the county beverage. People came from miles around when the Avon lady got a new shipment of Skinsosoft in. There's even a Mosquito Fest every year, to provide a counterpoint to the World Championship Duck Calling Contest and Duck Gumbo Cookoff.
Yessir, Stuttgart, Arkansas: Rice, Duck, and Mosquito Capital of the World!

That was the best I ever read !

Soak your clothes in kerosene, tuck your pants into your socks, wear gloves with duct tape around the cuffs and a beekeeper's hat.

The second best I ever read !!

Spring travels at exactly 15 miles per day. And it's coming this way fast!!!

Welcome Spring,

 

[skijay]

Ressurecting an old thread.

My friend just told me that on the 12pm news today they were interviewing someone who made this "potion" that eliminated the mosquitos from his yard. He sprayed the potion into the grass.

It was 1/3 epsom salt, 1/3 flat beer, 1/3 listerine.

Has anybody heard anything like this?
Does it sound legit or my friend was BS'ing me?
To me it sounds like it would kill the grass.

 

[MtnMagic]

Living here over 20 years in the North Country I've heard a lot of unusual remedies and seen many different ones made in the local drug stores. I've never heard of your friend's potion. Sounds like it surely would kill the grass and it may be just a story. You can always combine the mix, give it a try and know for certain if in fact it works.

One formula that is big up here is to buy one bottle of citronella and wheat germ oils at your local health-food store. Fill an 8oz container about 3/4 full of wheat germ oil. Add 1 tablespoon of citronella oil. shake well, apple to skin. This recipe is natural, safe and can be effective against mosquitoes, gnats, chiggers, ticks and fleas. Sure is safe and more natural than deet.

 

[loafer89]

I bought a Mosquito Magnet last weekend, and we have had it set up since sunday afternoon. I am kind of skeptical that this thing will work, but time will tell the truth.

 

[Stephen]

I bought a Mosquito Magnet last weekend, and we have had it set up since sunday afternoon. I am kind of skeptical that this thing will work, but time will tell the truth.

Let us know. I've head good things about it, but always as a "friend of a friend" thing. I'm looking forward to a first-hand report.

-Stephen

 

[loafer89]

I will let you know how it works. We bought the Liberty model from Home Depot for $295.00. I like to garden, and after 6pm in my backyard it's "feeding time" and I am the bait. It is supposed to run 24/7 for 3 weeks until all the female mosquitos (the biting ones) are killed off and we notice an improvement.

 

[loafer89]

I had guests over this weekend for the 4th and the Mosquito Magnet had now been running non stop for 2 weeks. While there were some bugs, it was noticably better than it was before we bought the trap. The instructions say that maximum effectiveness is reached only after running it all the time for three weeks, so mid-July will be the true test.

The directions say to change the propane tank every three weeks, but ours was empty after only two. :-?

The trap is nearly full of mosquitos, there must be a few thousand in their, yuck.

 

[loafer89]

I have now had my Mosquito Magnet running 24/7 for 6 weeks and I works very well, maybe too well as the Yellow Jackets seem to be running out of a food source :roll:

I wonder if there is a machine that kills them?

We have gone through 3 tanks of propane in 6 weeks, but you can go outside at night in our yard, and not be bothered by mosquitos.

 

[skijay]

I like the idea of the mosquito magnet. Using the pool at night when there is no breeze invites the mosquitos.