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Post by parson on Sept 4, 2018 7:28:38 GMT -5
Anyone else seeing a bunch more mosquitoes this year?
I don't recall ever seeing so many. Seems like any time of the day they little buggers will swarm ya!
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Post by swilk on Sept 4, 2018 7:38:33 GMT -5
Funny, I was out for several hours yesterday hanging stands and was never bothered by them. No thermacell or spray either.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2018 7:39:19 GMT -5
I actually thought to myself earlier this year that I've barely seen any.
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Post by parson on Sept 4, 2018 7:43:10 GMT -5
Y'all must have chased 'em all to Henry County.
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Post by scrub-buster on Sept 4, 2018 8:20:39 GMT -5
We have the big striped mosquitoes at work. They are about twice the size of a regular mosquito. They have been pretty bad this summer.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2018 8:33:50 GMT -5
Now as you mentioned. Not many this year. We don't feed the seed eating birds, so we have a lot of bug eating birds. The birds keep them in check.
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Post by dbd870 on Sept 4, 2018 9:33:53 GMT -5
I'd say less than normal around here
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Post by jimstc on Sept 4, 2018 10:22:18 GMT -5
I'd say less than normal around here Same here. Deer flies are a different discussion though |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2018 10:48:06 GMT -5
I'd say less than normal around here Same here. Deer flies are a different discussion though 2nd deer flies |
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Post by Sasquatch on Sept 4, 2018 11:17:35 GMT -5
We have the big striped mosquitoes at work. They are about twice the size of a regular mosquito. They have been pretty bad this summer. Yes, those things are huge! They are bad around my yard, nailing you in broad daylight. I can't be outside without spray much past sunset. |
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Post by swilk on Sept 28, 2018 14:28:15 GMT -5
uummmm.... I need to recant my first statement. Since the torrential rain we got a few weeks ago the skeeters have been horrible. HORRIBLE. Carry you away and drink every last drop of blood kind of horrible.
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Post by Sasquatch on Oct 1, 2018 12:18:31 GMT -5
uummmm.... I need to recant my first statement. Since the torrential rain we got a few weeks ago the skeeters have been horrible. HORRIBLE. Carry you away and drink every last drop of blood kind of horrible. Takes a big man to recant.  The little tiny ones were relentless yesterday evening when I took my son out down here, and we had sprayed down pretty good. Hellspawn! |
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Post by parrothead on Oct 1, 2018 14:41:26 GMT -5
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Post by parrothead on Oct 1, 2018 14:42:43 GMT -5
Can you imagine 3 times larger than what we have here. Be like a hummingbird after you.
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Post by beermaker on Oct 1, 2018 18:03:56 GMT -5
I have not had a problem with them until the last few weeks. I enjoy sitting at my desk in the garage (yes, desk in the garage) after the evening hassle has wound down. I'll have a few drinks and catch up on emails and texts from the day. Damn mosquitoes have been unbearable lately and have chased me inside a few times. Like someone else mentioned, it must be the record rainfall in September.
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Post by scrub-buster on Oct 1, 2018 18:12:21 GMT -5
They are terrible in my garage also. As soon as I walk in a swarm finds me. I don't know where they are hiding at. I sprayed myself twice with off this evening and still got ate up while I was trying to shoot my bow.
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Post by esshup on Oct 1, 2018 19:04:57 GMT -5
They're moderate here. Bad enough to bring a thermacell on the stand though.
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Post by deadeer on Oct 2, 2018 0:39:51 GMT -5
At my work in downtown SB, horrible. Bet I got bit 35-40 tims Monday night.
At folks, 5mi west, a nusiance.
At home, 15mi west of SB, absolute zero, where its usually the worst. Go figure.
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Post by Sasquatch on Oct 2, 2018 13:05:04 GMT -5
I hunted in NC after Hurricanes Dennis an Floyd in 99, I think it was. The skeeters were unbelievable. We used most of a can of OFF every day, and if we hadn't have been wearing headnets we would have been breathing them. It was horrible. |
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Post by HighCotton on Oct 3, 2018 6:14:24 GMT -5
I know I'm getting older but I sure must be getting slow, too!  What the heck took me so long to finally purchase a ThermaCell??? Hunting the opener on Monday, I wasn't bothered too much by the skeeters. I had sprayed down and I think that helped. My buddy said he was covered in them and he had sprayed down, too. Since I had time and I was hunting alone in the evening, I decided to run to the local Wal-Mart and I bought one. It took me 10 times longer to get it out of the package than it did to set it up. When I first got to the the stand I figured I would see if they were very bad before I fired up the ThermaCell. Crazy. Within 5-10 minutes I was covered. At one point I had anywhere from 6-10 dancing around my hand. Fired up the ThermaCell! No kidding here, within 2 minutes the skeeters were gone. The pad lasted 4 hours as noted. The amazing thing was that I never had one single skeeter land on me for the whole hunt! SOLD!!! |
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