Damn Poison Truck

[Smiling JOe]

Crazy, I was just looking at the old photograph of the Poison Spray Airplane which Mermaid posted, when out of the blue, here comes the sound of the Poison Spray Truck down the street. I went out to grab the dogs and get them inside. I was only halfway successful. One dog now in and the other probably chasing the Poison Truck.

By the way, Peaboy, the Poison Truck disregards the "no-spray" signs in the yard of your rental house.

[Mermaid]

Why on earth are they spraying in January? Is there a mosquito infestation? Flies? I don't understand. :idontno:

[CastlesOfSand]

Why on earth are they spraying in January? Is there a mosquito infestation? Flies? I don't understand. :idontno:

I'm curious to know the answer to that too?! :idontno:

[Smiling JOe]

:idontno: I don't know -- Maybe because it rained yesterday. I have noticed a few mosquitos out and about in the lasts week, but they are always out. This is the first time the Poison Truck has been around in a month or so.

[Waterman]

:idontno: I don't know -- Maybe because it rained yesterday. I have noticed a few mosquitos out and about in the lasts week, but they are always out. This is the first time the Poison Truck has been around in a month or so.

Wear your mask for a day or so! :bang:

[Paula]

The pesticide truck was out on Jan 10 or 11 because my sister and brother-in-law were there. They were there only 3 days and it's too bad they had to stay inside on one of those evenings to avoid the pesticides.

[Smiling JOe]

The pesticide truck was out on Jan 10 or 11 because my sister and brother-in-law were there. They were there only 3 days and it's too bad they had to stay inside on one of those evenings to avoid the pesticides.That could be true. I was out of town at that time.

[aquaticbiology]

The pesticide truck was out on Jan 10 or 11 because my sister and brother-in-law were there.

wow! your sister and brother-in-law must be really big mosquitoes! :razz: :lol: :funn:

or are they just little pests like my sister and her husband! HA! :shock:

seriously, the weather hasn't got cold enough long enough even way up here to kill off the bad bugs this year (yet) and that could mean a bad summer full of biters!

I know there's another thread somewhere about 'G.(lobal) W.(arming) Bush' but I am too lazy to go find it.

[Paula]

wow! your sister and brother-in-law must be really big mosquitoes! :razz: :lol: :funn:

or are they just little pests like my sister and her husband! HA! :shock:

seriously, the weather hasn't got cold enough long enough even way up here to kill off the bad bugs this year (yet) and that could mean a bad summer full of biters!

I know there's another thread somewhere about 'G.(lobal) W.(arming) Bush' but I am too lazy to go find it.

Very funny... :rolling: My sister and brother in law are fantastic (and they would be fantastic even if they were mosquitoes -- I would guard them from the pesticide truck with my life!). Gotta work on my message board grammar...

It's interesting, though, that I have never noticed mosquitos in our area or on 30A when we've been there (e.g., April, May, July, August, October, November, January, February are the months I've been there). So, that pesticide truck must work. We have many, many more mosquitos here in Michigan in the summer -- lots of them. But I have experienced the biting flies in the late summer a few times and I've learned to wear long pants to the beach when they're out because they nip at my ankles when I try to read at the beach.

[Rita]

The gulf winds should help reduce the # of mosquitos close to the beach. Right? You folks that live there year 'round, approximately how far from the beach until you notice more of a difference in the # of mosquitos in general?

[aquaticbiology]

sand fleas (the tiny biting kind not the bigger fishing kind) and biting flies around the beach, skeeters around the bay/wetlands

come to think of it I don't think I've ever seen a skeeter at the actual beach proper, just the biting flies and no-see-um tiny biting sand fleas

[Tootsie]

sand fleas (the tiny biting kind not the bigger fishing kind) and biting flies around the beach, skeeters around the bay/wetlands

come to think of it I don't think I've ever seen a skeeter at the actual beach proper, just the biting flies and no-see-um tiny biting sand fleas


oh, we were eaten alive by mosquitoes while ON Grayton Beach for sunset several times last fall. we couldn't believe it! black flies, yes. but mosquitoes? they were ON the beach feasting on us. large hairy ones. we had to pack up and haul a@#.

[jdarg]

We stayed up on Garfield St. in Grayton last summer, and if we walked down to the lake, skeeters were awful. Out in the open, fine. Up the street under the trees was brutal.

[Kimmifunn]

oh, we were eaten alive by mosquitoes while ON Grayton Beach for sunset several times last fall. we couldn't believe it! black flies, yes. but mosquitoes? they were ON the beach feasting on us. large hairy ones. we had to pack up and haul a@#.
Uh...Parrorthead was hanging out over on the lake with Beachblonde and her family over NYE and literally was COVERED in bites. All he did was itch his arms and legs and whine and complain. It was so werid. They were just over by the lake...

[Paula]

CCK: Do you notice mosquitos over in our area? I really never noticed a problem, and I've told my friends up here in Michigan that we have more mosquitos in Michigan during the summer than we have around our place in Florida. Maybe I'm just not there when the mosquitos are out.

[Donna]

I have seen mosquitos the size of small helicopters in some wooden areas and have even seen them cover a raw steak on the grill at Eden State Park, in spite of the smoke. But most of the time at Grayton, we never see one. We don't have them at Conch Out, probably because of the constant Gulf breezes. The one time I have ever seen 'skeeters (other than the legendary Skeeter from days of yore) at the beach, we lit tall citronella candles and they immediately disappeared. I know that back in the palmetto groves, you could get eaten alive by them in the old days. Frankly, that's what I think of still, when we drive through the back streets of WaterColor, although we are great fans of that development. Some people just go nuts at the thought of mosquito bites, it seems. Give me one over a chigger ("no-seeums") anyday.

"I just can't stop scratchin'!" :scratch: :doh:

[Smiling JOe]

By the way, sqeeters don't like to be sprayed with vinegar.