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Posted by 49Reo
- August 28, 2015, 18:40:11 PMQuote from: CDNRatMan on August 26, 2015, 20:45:57 PMwell perhaps you might want to think about living so close to the water, and move to a drier climate, move out of the swamp and up to higher ground. Then less skeeters and animals that will hurt you.
Lots of room up here..... 
Posted by greenbarn
- August 27, 2015, 20:58:30 PMAgreed.... with as much rain as we had this spring, the whole county was transformed into a swamp.....
Posted by CDNRatMan
- August 26, 2015, 20:45:57 PMwell perhaps you might want to think about living so close to the water, and move to a drier climate, move out of the swamp and up to higher ground. Then less skeeters and animals that will hurt you.
Posted by greenbarn
- August 26, 2015, 20:17:49 PMI caught one of them biting me on the forearm just below the elbow when I was mowing. Thought it was a fly at first glimpse, until I looked close- slapped it and had so much blood on my hand, had to wipe it off on my jeans... Thought I'd severed a vein for a minute...
I figured it would swell up big and itch. Actually nothing for a day, but then it did get a pretty big welt. Hope they're gone soon...
Posted by Pilgrim
- August 26, 2015, 07:12:34 AMThat's a freakin vampire Barn...you would have to eat a cookie and drink a glass of orange juice after one of them bit you. 
Posted by mittico68
- August 26, 2015, 06:03:36 AMYeah, too bad...
Posted by greenbarn
- August 25, 2015, 19:54:37 PMQuote from: mittico68 on August 25, 2015, 02:50:03 AMMan! Really impressive!
Those are not mosquitos, are helicopters!
Here in Italy we've got a new variant: tiger-mosquitos. Arrived about 10 years ago (originally coming from Africa), they're very hungry and stubborn, acting just during the day.
As for their size, they're a little bit smaller than the indigenous species.
So now we've got 2 different kind of mosquitos: one for daytime, and another for the night...
Like you really NEEDED mosquitoes during the DAY... 
Posted by mittico68
- August 25, 2015, 02:50:03 AMMan! Really impressive!
Those are not mosquitos, are helicopters!
Here in Italy we've got a new variant: tiger-mosquitos. Arrived about 10 years ago (originally coming from Africa), they're very hungry and stubborn, acting just during the day.
As for their size, they're a little bit smaller than the indigenous species.
So now we've got 2 different kind of mosquitos: one for daytime, and another for the night... 
Posted by CDNRatMan
- August 25, 2015, 00:49:59 AMYup big the size of our black flies on a good year..........but that is a dandy size be good for fishing
Posted by DC
- August 24, 2015, 22:49:07 PMI lived in DC for a couple of years. The standing joke was the cockroaches we had were so big you could put a saddle on them and ride them to work.
Posted by greenbarn
- August 24, 2015, 22:32:16 PMWith all the rain we've had this year- inches upon inches- we've got a pretty impressive crop of mosquitoes this year...
Now, I know there are much bigger mosquitoes in some areas - we were in the Everglades a few years ago, and they get as big as quarters down there - so bad no one stays during the mosquito months.
But for around here, these are bad... I think I saw one standing flat-footed trying to mount the cat.... I killed this one on the front porch the other evening, when it was trying to drain me of some fluids.