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That is sick. I live in SW Florida and planes fly over our whole county and bomb the little bastards to death! At least once a week all season. I have had zero bites. Not even the buzz of a threat. Sweet!
That said I'm coming to God's Country, Wisconsin, in the end of the month for ten days. Do I need a bottle of OFF?

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That is sick. I live in SW Florida and planes fly over our whole county and bomb the little bastards to death!

No skeeters, but I'm pretty sure you'll be dead in a few years.

Honestly, I wish they did that in my area. Hate them little bastards.

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I'll chime in on Florida-----yeah they do a freaking great job of spraying. Mosquitoes have never been much of a problem. That said, our recent monsoons have actually unleashed more of the critters than I've ever dealt with.

God, I remember soccer practices in Franklin WI at 8:00 P.M. standing captive as a goalie, practically having to be spastic to keep from being eaten alive-----don't miss that at all.

Southeast WI has had almost zero rainfall for a month now. Aside from my lawn being drier than Betty White, it's helped with the skeeters.

But as soon as the next storm rolls through, it's going to be nasty.

What storms. Very little or no rain forecasted thru next Thursday for southern WI.

Bakersfield, CA, they have trucks that go around and spray any pools of standing water, which are rare.

Zero bites.

Probably 3. One of many reasons why I love SW Idaho. BUT DON'T MOVE HERE--WE'S ALL A BUNCH OF BACKWOODS NUTJOBS!

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So dry here in SC WI that theres no mosquitos. Read recently that if the rain starts coming again it would be like 2 weeks or so before we had skeeters again.

Man-o-man there's lots of dry brown grass lawns around here. All dormant. We need rain in a big way, and lots of it, not all at once though, but a good all day slow soaker would be great, followed by another a few days after, and repeat.

Farmers around here in SC WI are gonna lose their crops soon if not already.

0 - live on the coast in Southern Cal.

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Portland, OR has no mosquitos. Just hipsters.

Is this some kind of new Ap I can get?

In central Wis, I kayak, fish, grill in my backyard, walk my dog and bike. Have about 5 for the year, because it has been so dry. Haven't mowed the yard for the last month, since it is all brown and dormant. The high temps would bring out the skeeters if there was any water, but even the rivers are drying up.

So apparently your wives aren't putting out tonight?

I feel sorry for the guys in southern wi doing mosquito sprays.

Very few mosquito bites. I have to worry much more about ticks here in the Catskills: almost every time I go out for a walk I have to remove at least three or four of them from my socks or legs.

Ticks are money makers too

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I have to remove at least three or four of them from my socks or legs.

Hopefully you're wearing your tube-socks, you could survive an alligator bite in those things.

I am not a fisherman but my friends that do go fishing say that if they wish to fish in the Wisconsin River, they have to take their owwn bucket of water! L0L

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So few bugs the dragonflies split.

Don't have to worry about the skeeters here in NC (renting out a place here for the summer), but have to worry about chigger bites, and any gators floating in the ponds on the golf course. Saw three gators floating around on the golf course that I played at in South Carolina.

Gator bites hurt a little more than mosquito bites.

Wow Franklin Our family were members at Tuckaway! I lived at the golf course all through school, from age 8 thru 22. Small world. My early years the club was on Edgerton Ave. B4 we moved to Franklin.

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Originally posted by Blair Kiel:
I'll chime in on Florida-----yeah they do a freaking great job of spraying. Mosquitoes have never been much of a problem. That said, our recent monsoons have actually unleashed more of the critters than I've ever dealt with.

God, I remember soccer practices in Franklin WI at 8:00 P.M. standing captive as a goalie, practically having to be spastic to keep from being eaten alive-----don't miss that at all.

My friends son and woman moved to Portland from Florida. Just love it. Must be a great place to live.

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Portland, OR has no mosquitos. Just hipsters.

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My friends son and woman moved to Portland from Florida. Just love it. Must be a great place to live.

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Portland, OR has no mosquitos. Just hipsters.

A good friend of mine moved from Portland to Arizona a year ago. She hated living in Portland because the weather was so awful. She loves living in Arizona.

I used to live in Tucson and still visit often. Love that place and will live in that area again once I retire.

Lots of nuts and fruits here in San Francisco but a mosquito is a rare sighting.

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Gator bites hurt a little more than mosquito bites.

Do you have 177 Gator bites documented on a spread sheet?

since there's so much talk about the weather here, you should check this excellent TV weather clip about our recent hot/dry spell.

http://www.mediabistro.com/tvs...eaves-station_b53621

I started getting nailed this winter walking in cane fields. Hundreds. Then came early spring in Cranberry bogs and Potato fields. Thousands.

At one point I thought the rectal bleeding was scary but then I realized how bad the mosquito bites were.

0 mosquito bites. (Too dry.)
0 'gator bites. (Too dry.)

So where do the frogs go when it gets so dry? I haven't heard any now for quite some time. Do they burrow down in any mud they can find, or do they shrivel up into little blobs of dark, leathery skin with missing eyeballs?

Our frogs all went silent, too. I think in long hot dry spells they burrow down and go into a dormant state.

Five or six so far this year in Austin. Slower than usual because it NEVER F%*$#G RAINS here anymore. Mosquitoes don't scare me though. They bite, I scratch. I power through.

I save my scaredness for snakes.

Zero mosquito bites here in phoenix, but I did manage to get stung by a scorp last month. It's not as bad as I thought it would be, kind of like a mosquito bite on steroids

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Originally posted by ShebPackFan:
A good friend of mine moved from Portland to Arizona a year ago. She hated living in Portland because the weather was so awful. She loves living in Arizona.

It's horrible weather here. Please stay out.

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swallowed one riding bike. Inhaled another at a softball game.

Zero - 113 degrees and 15% humidity today.