Mosquitos of doom...

[ITASOR]

The mosquitos where I live in central ny have been TERRIBLE this year. I can't go outside my house at all after 7:00 or I'll have AT LEAST 5 bites when I get back in, just from stepping outside and back inside.

I don't have any abnormal sitting water around my house or anything, but they're terrible....I hate them!

 

[Killyp]

I just pulled a mosquito out of my arm! There's loads in my room, my window doesn't close completely and they can fly in.

On a fairly similar topic, people often think the way to remove a tick is to squash it with a cigarette or splat it.

That does more harm than good as the tick will probably regurgitate all it's contents into the host. The way to remove a tick is to twist it anticlockwise as they have an anticlockwise thread on them....

 

[mad jew]

I just pulled a mosquito out of my arm!

Aliens-style? Dude! Totally post pictures.

 

[michaelrjohnson]

...The way to remove a tick is to twist it anticlockwise as they have an anticlockwise thread on them....

I can't tell if you're kidding or serious.

 

[maxrobertson]

You sound hot

The only real way to keep them away is for your body to give off a smell they don't like. Eating more garlic does the job for me. Sweating that out all night keeps them well off.

Yeah! I said it!

 

[Counterfit]

I think I have wesnile...

Erm, that's "West Nile"...
Anyways, up until last year, mosquitos have ALWAYS been bad in RI. Still small, but ****ing SWARMS of them. Last year, though, I don't think I saw a single one. They're back this year, but not quite so bad.

And this is going to sound like another plug for SC Johnson (because it kinda is ), but the Off! Power Pads work extremely well. I noticed this after I knocked one over the other night while helping my father with the pool filter.

 

[spicyapple]

I used to live on a farm where the hot summer nights brought out a lot of mosquitos. As a kid, even thought of trekking out in the woods until I walked about 20 metres in that I started feeling the wrath from the intense number of pests.

I feel sorry for the livestock.

 

[iTwitch]

I pretty much stopped taking my telescopes out at night becauses of the number of bites. I came in with a swollen face on a couple of occassions. I never liked the idea of spraying myself with chemicals either.

In one of the sci.astro newsgroups someone posted how to set-up a bat roost in your area but I never tried it. My neighbors would go ape****.

 

[zflauaus]

We have mosquitos so bad at my house. Tonight, I counted up all the bites on my legs from the past week, 22, really small, and freakin huge! Seriously, one on my foot is the size of a quarter at least. I live between two ponds, so that might be a factor, but I can't do a thing about it. Just something I have to live with.

And to the person living in Colorado, there goes my dreams of moving to Denver when I'm old enough. I went to Colorado a few years ago, went to a Rockies game, and was surprised there were no bugs at all. I loved it there.

 

[atticus1178]

in austin we have no bugs

there is so much pollution its smogs out all the bugs

it is like the entire city is protected by a bubble of Off!

 

[iTwitch]

On a fairly similar topic, people often think the way to remove a tick is to squash it with a cigarette or splat it.

That does more harm than good as the tick will probably regurgitate all it's contents into the host. The way to remove a tick is to twist it anticlockwise as they have an anticlockwise thread on them....

I just grab them using tweezers and subject them to trial by fire. Thankfully, I've never run into a bloated one.