Jerseygirl

I was bitten to death last summer when I first went to Toronto. I spent hours every day walking by the lake...during the day and in the evenings. If I forgot to wear the Lentek device I got bitten...if I wore it they little buggers didn't come near me.

Nutek

I should try one of those. Bites make me all bumpy.

It rubs the lotion on it's skin....

Jerseygirl

The bites I got last year lasted for months. A mozzie bite usually last 6 weeks or so...deer/horsefly bites last longer. Just when I think the bites have gone...up they flare again.

Nutek

Horrible

I was sent this a few minutes ago... Could be another solution.

http://now.msn.com/glamping-luxury-c...great-outdoors

Some of the slideshow pics are.... odd. (Not in a Nutek cellar kind of way).

Michael

Lake Ontario is not exactly standing water. Although Minnesota is known as the Land of 10,000 lakes, that doesn't count the 90,000 plus lakes classified as ponds with no inlets or outlets but a natural spring that keeps them full. It's like the 4th of July when people have zappers in their yard.

sir_eccles

While the Deep Woods DEET stuff works you do end up smelling like you've doused yourself in Sex Panther. So I'm trying something organic this year:

http://www.homs.com/products/biteblo...oz-bottle.html

A bit early to know how good it is really and then there are the times I only think to put it on after I get a bite.

The heat thing sometimes works but I've found you have to get it seriously soon after the bite so the heat can break down the saliva proteins before the body really reacts. A spoon in really hot water sometimes works.

Jerseygirl

I know but there is a lot of standing water in the small marinas, inlets etc. In any case there was a lot of biting bugs around there last summer.

SultanOfSwing

We don't live in Texas but my poor dad's going home with more mosquito bites on his legs from 5 days than I usually get all summer combined

Yorkieabroad

Are you in "old" cinco ie where they've finished building, or new cinco where they are still going at it? We used to be in "old" and rarely had problems, but the areas with new construction struggle to keep on top of the standing water, especially with these storms we've been having. Hopefully will settle down once the construction moves on and the drainage/ standing water gets sorted.

Weeze

Old and can't see any standing water. This clearly means I am attracting them from the whole neighbourhood to eat me. Perhaps they are having a welcome to the neighbourhood eating party?

Yorkieabroad

Just got back from a swim meet at Willowfork, and the mossies were out in force there...I guess the subdivisions roundabout spray, but the course itself doesn't get treated, and boy, it showed! Either that, or Weeze had a night indoors and the mossies had to go elsewhere for their snacks

Weeze

We attempted to go for a swim. It mostly involved Mr Weeze trying to hit the mossies of me and the two mini-Weeze's. Enough is enough. He has announced he is going to buy some of the stuff you can spray the plants with that stops mossies landing on them.

scrubbedexpat097

It is really bad out here in the boonies

We are spayed by the truck every other night and the last night the spray plane flew over. I fog all around the front and back doorways, seems to help for a while but I really think they are worse this year than they have been for a while.

Glad I don't have the day off work today and am outside mowing like someone will be at my house..

Nutek

This thread is why we invented indoors.

/itchy.

Pulaski

Well I guess that's one way to control population growth.