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Well thought out, informative. But still, Kill them all. Noseeums too. I literally cannot be outside my house 3 months of the year unless coated in deet, or
by bbarnett 5y ago
Well thought out, informative.
But still, Kill them all. Noseeums too.
I literally cannot be outside my house 3 months of the year unless coated in deet, or head to toe netting.
I mean literal clouds of them, and the noseeums in my ears, eyes, death. Death to them all.
If all of humanity expires for their lack, I care not, if we take them with us.
Death to them all.
- krasi0 5y agoIn some parts of the world, the suffering that you describe already lasts 9+ months of the year. Mosquito swarms literally eat you alive while outside.
- _Microft 5y agoThen, maybe, you are living in a place where nobody should have lived in the first place. Population in areas that are not really suited for us is a more widespread problem than we like to admit.
- tshaddox 5y agoWhich are the places people “should” have lived in the first place? Presumably places where clothing and shelter weren’t necessary to survive?
- prawn 5y agoThrough a number of months each year at my house, shaded gardening at almost any time of the day, or sitting outside for a drink with friends in the afternoon, is a constant battle with mosquitoes. It's a largely dry and urban area but all it takes is a neighbour with an uncovered watertank or still pond and it is quickly frustrating. It's not tropical or swampy. No lakes. Barely have creeks. And Aboriginal populations were here long before settlers arrived centuries ago to displace them.
- yann2 5y agoFind and grow the right plants (they cant stand the smell of quite a few). I cant remember the names but I remember my grandmom used to grow a specific bunch around sitout areas and windows. If that doesnt work try incense.
- prawn 5y agoLooked up the plants people typically mention and we already have those. We often use mosquito coils/incense. Helps slightly but isn't practical if you're just gardening in a shaded area and mosquitoes hassle you constantly. Still, could be worse - could have biting midges in my garden.
- bbarnett 5y agoErm. Parasites which feed upon humans, were with us as we evolved. Mosquitoes, noseeums have been with us from the start! If you live in a place without them, you are living where humans shouldn't, for mosquitoes thrive in environments where humans thrive.
- gambiting 5y agoThat's a problem in Poland too, and if mild continental European climate isn't "meant" for human habitation then I'm afraid nowhere is.
- _Microft 5y agoI admit to exaggeration. Humans shoehorning themselves into environments first and then trying to change that environment is just a pet peeve of mine. Draining swamps, irrigating the desert, damming rivers, reclaiming land from the sea or cutting down forests are bad enough but advocating to wipe out a species is a whole another level imo.
- bbarnett 5y agoI get your peeve, all good.
- corty 5y agoThen almost no humans should be alive anywhere. Almost all river valleys are former swamps, laid dry somewhere between antiquity and now to be habitable and arable. Rome was a swamp dried out by the cloaca maxima, among other reasons to get rid of the mosquito plague and associated diseases. We have made land habitable for millenia, you are arguing for a return to stoneage levels of settlement.
- graderjs 5y agoHaha, this is quite funny. I feel you must live in Florida, but I have no idea. First time to hear about these Noseeums, how are their bites compared to mosquito?
- prawn 5y agoI've encountered unbearable mosquito scenarios in Florida, but also Colorado, Asia, Australia, etc. Recently in Broome, Western Australia, a brisk walk wouldn't stop them from biting through clothes - my legs were riddled with bites and my scalp was covered with their bodies and my blood. That was on par with the Everglades in Florida. Horrific. But noseeums (biting midge or sand fly in Australia) are possibly worse. You don't see, hear or really feel them biting you, but then later the itch endures for a couple of weeks afterwards. Last couple of times, I thought often that having my skin surgically removed would be preferable to another week of the itching.
- bbarnett 5y agoQuebec, Canada. Noseeums, as someone else said, are near invisible. They leave rashes, suck blood, can transmit disease. The ones here (there are countless species) leave rashes which take weeks to go away. If you've ever been bit by a deer fly, it's the same thing, except these are super tiny. They literally use their jaws to slice a hole in your skin, and suck the blood up. They also love to suck water and salt from your eyes, so they land, but often get stuck and die because of you blinking. Then you end up with all these dead insects in your eyes. They love to fly in your ear, I imagine ear wax and the moistness attracts. They bite there too. So now you have rashes inside your ear canal, and insect crawling in there. In spring, they attack in droves. Hundreds or even thousands buzzing around your head. If you stand outside my house, in the spring, just stand still and stare ahead, within minutes they appear, and you are soon sightless for the sheer number of dead in your eyes. They need to be exterminated. I love birds more than most, but if 1/2 the bird species die, I'm ok with that, as long as noseeums do too.
- chasd00 5y agoI say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure. - Aliens In Oklahoma my wife got bit by some kind of flying thing that left blood running down her leg.
- Foobar8568 5y agoDeet? Tiger mosquitoes in my home region don't care about it, I sprayed heavily my shoes and legs with Deet based repellent and within 5min, I had these fuckers trying to bite through my shoes! And I could see them feeding on mint flowers as well.
- bbarnett 5y agoWherever you live, please never visit here, I want no tiger mosquitoes hitching a ride.
- yourapostasy 5y agoTry 3M Ultrathon. Or go 100% DEET if you haven't tried it already. I'll take the inevitable "oops, DEET causes horrible cancer" news report in the future for clouds of Asian Tiger mosquitoes surrounding but not landing on me, please.
- Foobar8568 5y agoIt was already 30%, so similar to the 3M one... http://www.srf.ch/content/download/10055635/115349210/version/3/file/MueckenMittelTestResultate.pdf http://www.srf.ch/content/download/10055635/115349210/versio... first one in this comparison.
- codingdave 5y agoAdd some birdfeeders around your house, and if swallows start to build their nests on your home, let them. I live next to wetlands, but the birds eat the bugs. Swallows specifically eat over 10,000 mosquitoes a day, so if you get them established on your property, it makes a huge difference.
- bbarnett 5y agoWe have swallows, bats, and more dragonflies than you can imagine. Thanks for the suggest, but it is just hopeless.
- zionic 5y agoWhile these kind of suggestions are no doubt intended to be helpful, they come off as ignorant to anyone who has lived in a mosquito-prone area. Short of living in an actual bat cave, you’ll never get the density of predators required to solve the mosquito problem.
- krasi0 5y agoOf all the natural predators mentioned above, only dragonflies make a real difference. It's night and day in the same area depending on whether there's a healthy population of dragonflies nearby.