Anyone else having a problem with skeeters in their yard?

[Blue-Jay]

It was fine until a few days ago. Now they're all over the goddamn place and eating me alive when I want to sit on the swing.

I'd almost rather live in the desert or the arctic than put up with those sons-a-bitches.

[greatauntoftriplets]

1. Got any oak mites????

Their bites suck worse than skeeters.

[Blue-Jay]

8. Maybe. I dunno.

There's plenty of biting motherfuckers in the yard and I hate them all. I don't ask their names when I'm slapping them off my legs and running away.

I have plenty of bug kill 'em juice, but I'm not supposed to use that because we have a kickass organic garden with plenty of giant pickles and tomaters and squishy-squashes and herbs (in america we don't pronounce the 'h'. We call 'em Erbs) and zooo-keenies and stuff like that.

[greatauntoftriplets]

16. Oak mite bites look more like spider than skeeter bites.

The center is hard and red and there is a largish red area surrounding the bite. They can last for up to two weeks. And they itch like hell. Thank the gods for cortisone cream and a Benadryl at night.

I got one last Friday sitting at an outdoor restaurant. I don't even have a yard.

:(

[Beausoir]

12. Yes, but nothing beats the bite of a DeerFly.

They take chunks out of your flesh.


The winged bastards.

[Blue-Jay]

15. I had one of those MFers trying to eat me on the bike trail last month.

Why do they always go for the ankles?

[Beausoir]

18. Worst bite of any flying insect.

Horseflies are child's play compared to a deer fly.

Big nasty bastards.

[MissB]

2. Got any standing water anywhere?

[Blue-Jay]

13. Not in our yard.

I think it might just be Skeeter Week.

[SPKrazy]

3. i no longer have a yard

so i dunno

:shrug:

:(

[Kali]

4. they are worse in the desert and arctic

at least sometimes

[pokerfan]

5. Kill them all I say

[Blue-Jay]

10. KILL 'EM!

Let Gawd sort out the rest.

[KitchenWitch]

6. I have a patch of concrete that is supposedly called a yard.

I think it is like 5000 square feet. My 2200 square foot house and garage sits on it.

No skeeters in sight. But we do have palmetto bugs.

[ironflange]

7. We've had nary a one all summer

Thanks to a dragonfly population explosion in the spring. So, there's lots of draggies, but no skeeters, and it's amusing watching the cats trying to catch them.

[Blue-Jay]

11. We've had a couple of dragonflies but they're fat and lazy.

They don't do shit.

[ironflange]

20. Very few left, actually

But they were peppy and friendly little guys, mostly the smaller yellow ones with a few of those great big blue mothers thrown in. Now the yard has been taken over by clouds of flying aphids.

[Beausoir]

9. Are you serious?? I live in MN lake country. Skeeters are my neighbors.

They are a constant up here. Big suckers, too.

That being said...the sons-a-bitches chewed me alive this weekend. On the ankles.

Itch itch itch.

[Blue-Jay]

14. Take 'em back, ya Northland bastards!

[idgiehkt]

17. I despise them

I literally do 'standing water patrol' every day. They breed in standing water and there is some somewhere I guantee you.

[undeterred]

19. In the house, in the yard, everywhere

I'm a killing machine...

[seemunkee]

21. Its been bad this year

No idea where any standing water might be but I think the adults are in the pine needles under our trees. We're working on clearing it out

[Blue-Jay]

23. That's the "Helluvit" as my grandad would say.

We don't have any standing water anywhere, but they're still tearing me up, the bastards.

I'm ready to nuke the whole yard.

[malta blue]

22. How long since the last big rain?

We have had cool temps lately and the lawn in freshly cut, so the mosquito problem has dwindled, but we had a ferocious summer.

[madrchsod]

24. need this?

[prolesunited]

25. Don't encourage him.

That's not allowed.

The problem is the past two weeks of rain we had. Now, all the floodwater-stage eggs are hatching record numbers. The mosquito population should fall as the 7- to 14-day lifespans draw to a close and the post-storm broods begin laying eggs that will lie dormant until next spring.

You can't poison the yard, but feel free to poison yourself. There's a can of Off in the office closet in the box on the floor and probably another one in the garage.

[Blue-Jay]

26. Bzzzzzzz. zzzzzt zzzzt. zzzzzzz.

kill kill kill kill!