Remember all the blood, sweat and tears we spent turning our backyard from this to this?
Well, I have a confession: Until this week, we haven't been out there for months. [insert frown-y face]
And not because we didn't want to, but because the millions and millions of vicious blood-sucking mosquitoes want to be out there more. [insert double frown-y faces]
People kept insisting we treat or spray our lawn, but we just couldn't bring ourselves to do it. (PLUS, a neighbor told us he did and it didn't help at all.) We kept the grass short, we emptied water sources, we cleaned the gutters, and NO relief. So we just stayed inside letting Marc run out occasionally to pick tomatoes.
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An interesting side note: southern mosquitoes look different than the northern mosquitoes of my youth. Here they are black with white spots, when I had always been used to plain brown ones. Weird right?
I've never before been more excited for fall. Bring on the first frost, a fire pit and lots more time for the girls to run around the yard. After all, we didn't lift all those bags of concrete for nothing!
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Those black ones with the stripes or dots are known as Tiger mosquitoes. They are most active at dusk and dawn.
ReplyDeleteLet me tell you, I HATE THESE THINGS. I live in PA, and like you I cannot go outside and enjoy my yard pretty much from June until just last week. Terrible, AND we treat our yard for fleas with Sevin granules. Unfortunately the spray freaks me out. I used BIO Spot yard spray last year and for a week they were totally gone, it was amazing. But that stuff does freak me out. The Sevin granules freak me out less because they're not airborne and it says they're safe to use around food plants.
But still. holy SHIETIER(ER(I do I hate mosquitoes. I also have Type O blood which they LOVE. I look like a leper all summer, I"m covered in welt in a matter of seconds from them just fro m standing outside for a minute to take my dog to go to the bathroom.
We looked into gas-powered CO2 mosquito traps but they cost like $500. Somedays I am that desperate though.
Kelly,
ReplyDeleteI hear you on the desperation! We have looked into those gas-powered ones too.
That is SUPER interesting about the Type O blood. Now if I could only remember my own blood type...
Nikki