There's plenty of biting motherfuckers in the yard and I hate them all. I don't ask their names when I'm slapping them off my legs and running away.
I have plenty of bug kill 'em juice, but I'm not supposed to use that because we have a kickass organic garden with plenty of giant pickles and tomaters and squishy-squashes and herbs (in america we don't pronounce the 'h'. We call 'em Erbs) and zooo-keenies and stuff like that.
16. Oak mite bites look more like spider than skeeter bites.
The center is hard and red and there is a largish red area surrounding the bite. They can last for up to two weeks. And they itch like hell. Thank the gods for cortisone cream and a Benadryl at night.
I got one last Friday sitting at an outdoor restaurant. I don't even have a yard.
Thanks to a dragonfly population explosion in the spring. So, there's lots of draggies, but no skeeters, and it's amusing watching the cats trying to catch them.
But they were peppy and friendly little guys, mostly the smaller yellow ones with a few of those great big blue mothers thrown in. Now the yard has been taken over by clouds of flying aphids.
The problem is the past two weeks of rain we had. Now, all the floodwater-stage eggs are hatching record numbers. The mosquito population should fall as the 7- to 14-day lifespans draw to a close and the post-storm broods begin laying eggs that will lie dormant until next spring.
You can't poison the yard, but feel free to poison yourself. There's a can of Off in the office closet in the box on the floor and probably another one in the garage.
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