MOSQUITOS

[jix]

I know that Sheeter vacs did not work in the campground over a whole summer.. and there were a lot of them running 24/7.

The army used jeep mounted foggers which used kero and DDT back when that was legal . They blew dense smoky fog into our bivouack areas that made me coke and spit, but they sure put a hurting on moquitos and blackfies for that day. At night the skitters came back of course so we rigged mosquitonets under our camo nots, climbed into our hoocfhies, sprayed raid and got some good sleep until brekky. the grub tent was jam packed with the liitle pests every morning. We used a lot of DEET. But no part of a bivvy in the bush was fun Becuzza the bugs, especially the pit latrines.. Drop trou, spray deet, get er done and jump up and run.UGGGHHH...... I hated the army in the !*#$#$ bush in the summer. No sowers for weeks, no clean skivvies, lousy field rations, sweaty, dirty stinky& itchey. Not for a gentleman.______________:

 

[bumperm]

The good news is that mosquitoes can only fly about 1.5 mph. This means if you are slow, slothful, or a couch potato, you are skeeter bait. However, if you get off your butt and stay on the move, you only have to be concerned with head on collisions. If you are moving fast enough, the skeeters get knocked senseless and by the time they recover you are well on your way and out of their effective targeting range. This is why you won't get skeeter bit while riding your road bike. However, in low range on a Kubota, all bets are off unless you have a cab.

 

[scaredychicken]

Scaredychicken: in our lakeside trailer court there were 7o trailers with board patios. About half the units had skeeter vacs running all summer, but the mosquito were still terrible all po0f the time until the really hot dry weather came about mid-July, when the mosquitos were all dead of old age.
I don't think that the propane skeeter vacs worked at all, but then I did not have one on my patio. I had a propane torch hhich made a dense foggy smoke with DDT in it. That worked until the smoke blew away. It killed a lotta bugs, but the mosquitos were rignt back withiin twenty minutes. Some guys would spray dozens of cans of raid into the open. That killed all the mosquitos for about an hour, then back they came. At night my neighbour burned a big cordwood fire with flames ten feet high in the middle of his large lot next to mine. He burned half a cord of wood every evening, dried and split. That really worked, but somany neighbors would gather there every night you could not get any peace and quiet, cause thell got rowdy and drunk, so he got kicked out of the park becoz of the complaints of late night noise and firecrackers that scared all tbe pet dogs into barking. It was bedlam but nobody felt any mosquito bites with ten yards of the firepit. In the morning there were hundereds of beer cans scattered heck west and crooked. His dutifui tolerant wife would get up early and clean up the mess without a murmer, but I got so fed up we pulled out and sold my trailer and deck right where it stood. I don't really like rowdy neighbors much, especially the ones that think it is fine to throttle up Harleys in the middle of the night. At that place the swkitters were awful, but preferable to the Yayhoos and the impossible racket way late. My wifes little dog would be so scared of the nouse of the fiurecrackers tght he would lie in bed beside my wife and tremble in terror. We Will never go back there.______ullinghair:

that is the beginnings of a best-seller novel. taken under advisement, thanks Jix.

 

[scaredychicken]

The good news is that mosquitoes can only fly about 1.5 mph. This means if you are slow, slothful, or a couch potato, you are skeeter bait. However, if you get off your butt and stay on the move, you only have to be concerned with head on collisions. If you are moving fast enough, the skeeters get knocked senseless and by the time they recover you are well on your way and out of their effective targeting range. This is why you won't get skeeter bit while riding your road bike. However, in low range on a Kubota, all bets are off unless you have a cab.

they gang up though