Hi everyone

Ok- this may sound like a stupid question but how bad are they?? :scared:

Have just returned from a local shopping trip and my two daughters persuaded me to buy mosquito nets for their beds. I think they will be more for show than anything or at least I hope they will...

We will be moving to Newmarket, Ontario in early September. Has the season ended by then?

Can you leave windows open if they are not screened?

In Europe, the mosi's make direct hits on both my husband and I, so I am not relishing the thought of several months with the little blighters!

Comments please.

Bombards

I was in Newmarket last night. I couldn't tell you if I was bitten there because my arms and legs are already covered with bite marks from mosquitos and deer flies, but I did notice catching some flying bug thing in my teeth. I think the bugs will be gone by September. I wouldn't leave an unscreened door or window open in the summer but I may have a lower tolerance than you.

I've not been bothered much by the bugs this year, and I tend to forget to close the screen on my patio door. I think things are worse in Cottage Country

Or in any sort of wooded area.

Incidentally, Bombards, what I was doing in Newmarket was looking for a liquor store while the other half was riding nearby. I found a big new one on Yonge Street, large selection including a "Vintages" room (that's for the premium wine imports). Lots of rough customers in there, dropping stuff all over the place, one even propositioned me. It wasn't genteel but, I suppose, you've got to accept that there'll be some PWT out in the country and it's probably different in the daytime.

Eat fresh garlic and the mosquitos will leave you alone.

Thanks dbd33

"Two birds with one stone" so to speak!!

If I get drunk enough, perhaps I wont feel or care about the mosquito's!!!!!!!!


Sorry to sound thick but what are PWT'S????

Bombards

Poor White Trash, a vulgar term used to describe rural people, especially in America. It's a running joke that I drive a white trash car because none of the people who shout "Nice car, buddy" ever has any teeth or a complete set of clothes.

Doesnt work. DEETs about the only thing I trust.

Its worse outside the cites, and all homes have screens anyway so its an academic point. And yes, they are done by September, mostly.

They can be annoying. Annoying enough that we got a $400 SkeeterVac (not the crappy cheaper one without the vacuum system, they dont work) , and it catches large numbers for us...even more than are plastered on the front of the car! I'll post a picture of the trap basket sometime...probably a couple of hundred thousand little bastard corpses from about a weeks worth of trapping.

With the aid of the trap our yard is mostly OK, until after dark. For the few that hang around we use the kiddy OFF deet spray, and can live our lives in comfort.

Lots of them here in Cornwall and I'm a hopeless scratcher. So once bitten the result seems to hang around forever!

Its not so much that the mosquitoes are that bad

But DEET will become your best friend

and it's not just because the bites irritate...

But because West Nile is becoming a reality in Canada

We've been having good luck with an Off! candle thing. It's a cone with a candle in the bottom and tabs of some active ingredient for the top. In the end though, I feel I have to go out despite the bugs as there are six months of cold and darkness ahead.

How bad are they well people spray toxi chemicals (Deet0 on themselves and then fog their enitre cities with malathion. Mosquito-plagued Winnipeg calls out fogging crews

Iaink,
will be tryoing the garlic spray today, Fresh garlic consumed isn't supposed to work but the spraying of garlic oil is. Stepnek dab with a cold wet tea bag and the itch will go away.

The girls are trying tea oil on their legs this summer as they tend to rip them up during the night, so far no problems.

I'll let you know on the garlic.

And does anyone know the toxicity or otherwise of the so called "natural" cures? Its boring I know but i prefer a more objective scientific approach.

West nile doesnt bother me, its largely a non event for all but the very sick, very old or very young, but as DBD says, its a long cold winter, so I'm damned if a few invertibrates and some humidity are going to keep me in.

Mosquitos are attracted to alcohol so the more you drink the more you will get bit

Bwahahahahaha...

IMO, mosquitos are nothing compared to blackflies! Though you probably won't have to worry so much about them in Newmarket (thank your lucky stars! ).