Bugs

[H2S]

Fucking mosquitos are back. Just spent 20 minutes dicking around in the back yard...didn't feel ONE of the FIVE strikes - two each on the back of my legs and one on my forehead, for crying out loud.

Asian Tigers. New to the Atlanta area (and entire Southeast) about 10 years ago. Half the size of "regular" mosquitos, twice as smart and ten times more vicious...they attack in squads (one flits for your attention while the others touch-n-suck out of sight) and they're virulent as hell!

 

[H2S]

Mosquitos. Little fuckers serve NO purpose in nature (and, no, as a food source lost, no other species would miss them) other than to cause pain and suffering on those they afflict - vectoring nasty-ass diseases in payment for the blood they steal.

 

[NDHoosier101]

Agreed, fuck'em. Ticks are right up there with them though. Can't stand them.

 

[Scapegoat]

And chiggers

 

[JohnRandle]

Gnats.

 

[packerzrule]

Hang a bat house in one of your trees. Once the house in inhabited, I guarantee that within 1 week, you will see considerably less of those pesky fuckers

 

[H2S]

Hang a bat house in one of your trees. Once the house in inhabited, I guarantee that within 1 week, you will see considerably less of those pesky fuckers

bats are everywhere these days...fat little fuckers are having the time of their lives. s'been raining and muggy for the last couple of weeks...80° and 75% humidity today...Tigers are swarming...gad!...save the wimmin n chirrens!

just popped this lil missy...the bb is for perspective.

 

[packerzrule]

bats are everywhere these days...fat little fuckers are having the time of their lives. s'been raining and muggy for the last couple of weeks...80° and 75% humidity today...Tigers are swarming...gad!...save the wimmin n chirrens!

just popped this lil missy...the bb is for perspective.

Crikey!!

 

[mrwallace2ku]

Slept in the Redwood coastal forest 1 night on the way down to Humbolt (wink). Woke up the next morn to my buddy laughing his ass off @ me. I ask, " what fer?" and he replied," I've been watching misquitoes attack your face for an hour now."

I had welts on my face/head for a week-n-half after that 1 night, trip to Humbolt county wasn't all that enjoyable, cept for....

 

[H2S]

Crikey!!

no kiddn bro...not like those mosquitcrows yall got in Bratland...
these little things stealth in, slurp and sceneshift within seconds...
most of the time the only way you know they visited is the inevitable advent of itchy welts!

if they keep adapting to colder weather, could be hell to pay with whole ecosystems. As I understand it, one of their resume points has it that they're more successful, efficient vectors of disease than other species - probably due to their small size & stealthy attack.)

 

[H2S]

Slept in the Redwood coastal forest 1 night on the way down to Humbolt (wink). Woke up the next morn to my buddy laughing his ass off @ me. I ask, " what fer?" and he replied," I've been watching misquitoes attack your face for an hour now."

I had welts on my face/head for a week-n-half after that 1 night, trip to Humbolt county wasn't all that enjoyable, cept for....

I hope you fed him worms while he slept...
Is it true what they say? about Humbolt being like Mecca?
I'd like to make a hadj there some day.

 

[H2S]

Agreed, fuck'em. Ticks are right up there with them though. Can't stand them.

In Order of Abhorrence: Ticks, Mosquitos, Black Flies, Horse Flies, Chiggers, NoSeeUms/Gnats, Wasps, Roaches and so on through every fucking one of the 10,000,000+ species of bugs out there.



thank you, I feel better now.

 

[H2S]

Lions and Tigers and Flying Spiders, o mai

I went out in the middle of my back yard a couple minutes ago, at least 30' from the nearest tree, and ran into a spider strand...
say what?
As I'm wiping it off (as well as you can wipe off something so ephemeral at night) I feel another one run across my face...dammit...retreated inside, got my flashlight, went back outside and...holey shits...there's hundreds of the things. Little bitty spiders hanging on to almost invisible 3' strands of silk...floating along...spreading themselves all over the damn place.

Bug People call it "ballooning." Baby spiders leave their homes in the trees by spinning their almost-lighter-than-air silk and float away...when they've gone far enough, they eat the web and descend...and start eating other bugs.

Cool. I can dig that.

 

[JohnRandle]

Hang a bat house in one of your trees. Once the house in inhabited, I guarantee that within 1 week, you will see considerably less of those pesky fuckers

The bats constantly fly around our back yard(and swoop pretty close to our heads) and the skeeters still run us out.

 

[NickVT10]

Propane Powered Mosquito Control from Sears.com

Expensive but i heard these work very well

 

[H2S]

speaking of spiders...

shot this mother completing her 4' diameter web last night...was supported by three reinforced silk mains running 10' up & 4' down a tree trunk and 8' down to a bush (figure at least 15' from the tree high mark to the bush.) Fucking glorious, amazingly beautiful shit.

 

[Yu Lee - A Nova Lover]

The Bat Tower: The 30-Foot Monument to Biological Pest Control and Cross-Species Design - Geoff Manaugh & Nicola Twilley - The Atlantic

 

[SomeGuy]

Fucking mosquitos are back. Just spent 20 minutes dicking around in the back yard...didn't feel ONE of the FIVE strikes - two each on the back of my legs and one on my forehead, for crying out loud.

Asian Tigers. New to the Atlanta area (and entire Southeast) about 10 years ago. Half the size of "regular" mosquitos, twice as smart and ten times more vicious...they attack in squads (one flits for your attention while the others touch-n-suck out of sight) and they're virulent as hell!

Racist!