How are the mosquitos where you live?
 

Are they bad?

Do you know of any place (especially in N America) where they are virtually nonexistant?

What about other bugs?


Here in Winnipeg the mosquitos have been bad this year. We've had west nile virus warnings all over the place, and 3 reported cases of it so far. The city has fogged for mosquitos at least 5 times so far this summer, and due to new eggs hatching it looks as though they will have to fog at least once more.

Yes, we still fog for mosquitos here. In fact, this particular summer the Province ordered the city to send out the fogging trucks due to the west nile threat.

How are they where you are?

It actually isn't too bad..only been bit a few times

They're quite freindly, really..

Not too bad this time of year.. earlier they sucked..

There are some here, but generally in Vegas not too many bugs.

Ontario is bad in the evening this year

I am still itchin' from the bites I got while I was in Gimli:( never seen any that big in my life..and the damn horsefly bites didn't help me any either! thanks Sleazy for the bug bites!

i hate fuckin misquitos :(

http://www.delarge.co.uk/dv/mosquito.gif

is that a ball sack?

not to bad in pittsburgh. our summer has been relatively dry though.

You have got to have the worst infestation of mosquitos of any city on earth. I don't need screens on my windows in vancouver and haven't seen a mosquito in years (except camping).

Man those little shit's use 2 tear my white ass up when I lived in Texas..

Haven't had one bite me in years in California, got'em here but I've been lucky..

Seems like each year there are less mosquitos down here in south florida. They spray so much chemicals into the air and lakes its hard to imagine we'd have any.

:1orglaugh

I was in S Cal for a few weeks back in the summer of '82.... I don't recall seeing even one mosquito the whole time I was there.

It was awesome.


Some years it's not too bad here in Winnipeg actually. We have good years and bad, but when it gets bad it gets REALLY bad. At least in the city the spray melathion to take down the population, but try going camping during a bad year and they're as big as airplanes and attack in swarms. You have to be covered/slathered in repellant at all times.

I don't know what's worse for your health, the spray they use or bathing in repellant for three months.

Mosquitos are deadly, particularly those dengue or malaria carrier.

i hope mosquitoes in our area are not those dengue carriers

i haven't fiound them too bad, maybe becaus eits been so dry here.

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

Sleazy didn't slather your body with repellant lotion?

How negligent of him.

They seem to be quite healthy here since they've been feeding so well off me. :disgust

They are VERY bad right where I live because I have a lake in my backyard. If you go around any body of water here, you're going to get eaten alive by them..

Fine thanks - Wish it was otherwise!

Dengue stats are up to around 8500 this year so far in Costa Rica, but only 6 cases of reinfection (the dangerous stage). The rainforest environment and rainy season does not help.

What ya doing with mosquitos in Winnipeg? It's obviously not cold enough :)

I remember when I was little the trucks would ride by leaving a big white fog. That stuff worked. Nowdays the trucks have a more clear spray and the trucks fly by. Big waste, the guy could just as well be spraying a can of Off out the window.

They aren't too bad at my place, but at my aunt's a few miles north of me you can't go outside in the late afternoon without being attacked. When the street light comes on you can see their swarms.

1) Winnipeg was built on a swamp near the junction of two large rivers. Mosquito heaven right there.

2) Summer in Winnipeg can get very hot, and very humid at times.

We had a lot of rainfall throughout the spring, and have had some hot muggy days in the past month as well.

And our mosquitos have teeth and are on steroids due to their short life span here. :D

try living in the south

visit Louisiana during mosquito season

you will hate them with a passion

you cant even chill outside without thousands of the fuckers flying into your ear or trying to suck your blood

usually just bad for a few hours at night. They sprayed not too long ago all throughout town for them so that helps a little.

Don't move to FL - they outnumber the people here

not to mention the palmetto bugs (huge flying roaches)

they're delicious here in chicago!

So far one big one on the neck and small one on the back. The one of the neck was sore for 3 days :Oh crap

Man,t hey're crazy where I love. I swear they should be considered the provincial bird. My back yard is FULL of them. I can't even enjoy my yard this time of year.

There is no mosquito inside our house. But there are lots of them outside.

not too bad here fortunately!

Here in summer always have a lot of "mosquitos".

They were getting bad until the govt started charging fines to people with dirty pools

no mosquitos at all this summer here in germany...

winter was to long and cold

They get bad at night in jersey

i havent seen or been bitten by a mosquioto since i moved to california.

do they even have them in california?

if so i never seen one.

blackwido spiders is another story, those are everywhere

mosquitos are dangerous.. i hate them!!

Hasn't been to bad here in the core area since the city fogged and got rid of the buffer zones.
Still getting bit once in awhile.

Not that bad, plus we have mesh windows here

Last year was worst

I've seen 5 so far this summer in Oakville, and they have been at the park. Notr eally a ton of mosquitos, but I'm getting very annoyed with the hornets everywhere.

little fucking bastards...

yeah there isn't enough stagnant water hanging around for them to live in here in So Cal.

In New Orleans they passed some sort of mosquito control years ago I was told because the politicians got tired of seeing the strippers all bit up in the clubs. TRUE STORY :1orglaugh

They're usually really bad over here but this year has been alright.

a fucking men to that, and they're also the size of small birds down here too. City Pest Control drives down my street every night spraying for mosquitoes and it doesn't help much if at all....

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they're nasty little bitches biting me everywhere!

In related news, I just woke up with about 10 mosquito bites on my ass this morning. :mad:
There's a skeeter somewhere in this house - now I'm on a mission to find and exterminate him. http://www.gofuckyourself.com/images.../hitit_sml.gif

Around my apartment, not bad... 7 miles up the street, insane savage flesh eaters!

not bad here although last week was the worst all year