I need to remember to buy some 6-12 and Campho-Phenique next time I'm at the store...:beat:...Ben
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I need to remember to buy some 6-12 and Campho-Phenique next time I'm at the store...:beat:...Ben
They have not been bad here YET........................
Well I'm usually not outside enough to even notice, but this year is an exception...If I had an air-conditioned garage big enough for the mighty Dodge/Cummins, it wouldn't be an issue...:bigboy:...BenQuote:
Originally Posted by Honda
Stop whining---you haven't seen mosquitoes until you spend some time on the Alaskan Tundra----they eat geese for breakfast :wah:
They may have migrated south...My usual repellent combination of #2 diesel and Louisiana Brand hot sauce doesn't seem to have much effect on them this year...:yum:...BenQuote:
Originally Posted by Dave Grubb
So----let me understand----do you spray the skeeters with that concoction or rub it on yourself?
Back to them tundra skeeters-----it is the only time that I gave thought to peeing my pants rather than taking a more conventional route to relief :uhuh:
6-12 always worked well...I doused it on myself from a stick (similar to underarm deodorant), but it seems it got banned a few decades ago by some eco-wacko, possibly the same one that banned DDT...The hot sauce/diesel idea came from my fevered imagination, but who knows, it might work...I'll probably just see what they have on the shelf at HEB...I hope they still sell Campho-Phenique...It stopped the itch almost instantly as I remember...My Mom always kept plenty of both on hand when we were kids...:flower:...BenQuote:
Originally Posted by Dave Grubb
Yep - the record levels of rainfall this year are going to bring a bounty of mosquitos. And, firefighters fear the fuel growth occurring out in the bush.
The good news is Lake Mead will rise for the Las Vegans.
Hunter
Lake Powell is coming up almost 1.5' per day right now.
Which means lake Mead will do the same. Per the compact amongst Western states, the level of Powell and Mead are linked to each other.Quote:
Originally Posted by Phillbo
Hunter
worst swarms of Mosquitos I have ever run into was on the outer banks of North Carolina. The damn things would land on an bite through the big blob of deet on your arm before you even had a chance to spread it out. As you got out of your car a huge black cloud of em would raise off of every bush with in 30 feet of you.
Exumas Bahama.... Anchored about 30 yards off shore in Staniel Cay enjoying a cuban cigar on the bow after dinner when we hear a humming noise. My mate looked at me and said 'lets go down and make the ship tight". A swarm of mosquitoes the size of flies engulfed the boat for about 15 minutes and then were gone..... No more encounters for the rest of the evening but we slept with all the hatches tight and the genny running for AC that night.
I learned to anchor out on the windward side after that.
I also saw something this week I haven't seen in decades, a firefly...Just one in the front yard...I used to see swarms of them in East Texas, but this was the first one I've seen here...:stuck:...Ben
We've had a lot of rain and hence a lot of mosquitoes, biggest I've seen since I left Northern Wisconsin, largest swarms also. Used to be you couldn't see them coming now they have got so big you can't help but see them.
OH! I have seen a bunch of fireflies also. I've never much paid attention to the date when they come in. We usually get a lot not so many so far.
The skeeters are probably making a candlelight dinner out of them...:yum:...BenQuote:
Originally Posted by mgrist
We had them on my farm a few miles west of you, but not nearly approaching the numbers when I grew up in Waco.Quote:
Originally Posted by Truckman
Speaking of density of mosquitoes reminds me of reading at the time during the civil rights marches in the early ‘60’s that civil rights groups announced they were going to organize marches in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana. Plaquemines Parish is the southeastern most land in Louisiana consisting greatly of dense swamps. Unfortunately for them the parish was controlled by an infamously segregationist political boss named Leander Perez who announced any such breach of his peace would result in mass arrests. The arrested would then be interred in an outdoor facility he had prepared consisting of an outdoor fenced enclosure at an old abandoned 1800’s fort in the middle of the swamp. Perez, as I read then, invited the press to tour the “facility,” where it was learned that prior attempts to use the abandoned fort for raising cattle had to itself be abandoned, when it was discovered that the mosquitoes were so thick that the cows noses became clogged with them and the beasts died of suffocation. Shortly thereafter the march was called off by organizers, perhaps the only time in that era civil rights organizers were dissuaded by intimidation against them.
Ok, thats like 8 places that have the worst skeeters.:rolleyes: Well you're all wrong 'cause the skeeters are so big here they can stand flat footed and fork a turkey.:wah:
It was blackflies in the yukon.:pity:
My go to for Lake Powell. Still below last year.Quote:
Originally Posted by Phillbo
I'm betting it will catch up and surpass last year rise unless they dump it all down to Mead.
I hope you are correct. I checked last a few weeks ago and it didn't look promising then.
The thought of adding a foot plus to a lake that size in one day makes my brain hurt.
Thats because a few weeks ago it was still snowing in the rockies. The melt has just begun.
Per the compact agreement amongst Western states, lake Powell must equalize levels with lake Mead. And, being lake Mead is super low right now, a lot of water will head towards Las Vegas.Quote:
Originally Posted by Phillbo
Hunter
So you got big skeeters...But are your alligators tough enough to laugh off having a steak knife stuck in their skulls?...:bigboy:...BenQuote:
Originally Posted by CactusCurt
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Originally Posted by CactusCurt
I grew up in Miami, don't ever recall having AC but I don't remember suffering like my ex when the temp isn't 68 degrees in the house.
I also remember half living in the glades catching gators and snakes, fishing having a ball, but I don't really remember mosquitos. I remember the trucks driving up and down the road spraying DDT and the low playing airplanes that did the same. I guess we got used to them or were just having to much fun to think about them. That was also 50 something years ago, might have something to do with it.:flip: I do remember the roaches though!