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Shell Beau Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-10 08:39 PM
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Mosquitos serve no purpose.
Edited on Thu Apr-15-10 08:41 PM by Shell Beau
I say this every summer! It isn't even summer yet dammit! We are 10 degrees above our last year temp at this time, and the skeeters are feeding. My LDK is sooooo allergic to them. Already, she has 2 big bites on her legs and 1 on her forehead. I guess I will be pulling out the net again to put over her bed. Booooooo!!!!!! If it is this bad now, I can't imagine what summer will bring. x(


Let me add June bugs!! EWWWWW! Almost as bad a roaches (cringe), and I just found one in my hair!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GROSS!!!!!
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kimi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-10 08:50 PM
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1. Let me add fleas to that list
I see no practical purpose to fleas. I hate flies, but see their usefulness in getting rid of - well, carcasses and such. I dislike spiders intensely but know that they kill mosquitoes among other nasty buggy things. Mosquitoes, June bugs, yellow jackets, roaches, and fleas - I just see no purpose to their existence.

I am open to scientific reasoning on this, but I am also strongly biased.

Best of luck to your LDK, BTW, it will be a long summer indeed.
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The Velveteen Ocelot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-10 08:51 PM
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2. Mosquitoes are bat and bird food.
I like animals that eat mosquitoes.
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GoCubsGo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-10 09:03 PM
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3. And, dragonflies...
Fish eat their larvae.
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mycatfred Donating Member (89 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-10 09:05 PM
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4. Yuck
Where I used to live was horrible. I'm allergic to them, like, severely. And last Fourth of July I was walking around the town I used to live in with a friend, wearing VERY powerful bug spray, and got over one hundred bites total that night. I was sick for ever, it seemed.
I'm so sorry they are already out so soon! I'm glad that I'm in the desert now, and they don't exist in major hordes =)
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snailly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-10 09:32 PM
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5. I hear ya, sister
DEATH TO ALL MOSQUITOES, JUNE BUGS, ROACHES AND WASPS! I hate them all!
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Skip Intro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-10 09:37 PM
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6. You know, I'd sooner put a roach or spider out than kill it, but mosquitoes (and ants!) - nope. nt
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nickinSTL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-10 09:54 PM
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7. I might have actually been bitten by a mosquito
not sure- I don't react much to the bites, so it's hard to tell if it's that or something completely unrelated causing a small red bump.

June bugs - don't bother me. They're just beetles. Don't really want them in the house, but...I'd just evict them.

We also evict large spiders.

Roaches are disgusting and I'm fine with killing them (I'm also allergic to the damn things).
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tango-tee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-10 11:54 PM
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8. I'm one of those folks who could be in a crowd of 5000 people,
and there is one mosquito. Guess who will be bitten? That's right. Me.

Don't know what it is, but I'm a mosquito magnet.
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MicaelS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-16-10 09:35 AM
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12. You smell better.....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosquito
Mosquito prefer some people over others. The preferential victim's sweat simply smells better than others because of the proportions of the carbon dioxide, octenol and other compounds that make up body odour.

:evilgrin: :bounce:
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tango-tee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-16-10 01:29 PM
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16. Hrmf. It's because I smell better.... *to a mosquito*.
Edited on Fri Apr-16-10 02:23 PM by tango-tee
Still, I appreciate your kind and well-worded response :evilgrin: because it sounds a whole lot better than simply saying "It's only because you stink to high heaven that they notice you in the first place."

:hi:
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Shell Beau Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-16-10 05:22 PM
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17. That is my baby girl too. We had this issue last summer
Edited on Fri Apr-16-10 05:23 PM by Shell Beau
(her very first summer), and they tore her up. One bit her on her ear and got infected, and her ear swelled 3 times its normal size. We had a terrible time with them, and I was hoping this summer would be a little different, but since they aren't even really out in full force, I can tell it will be another battle. We went to the doc 4 different times last year because of stupid skeeter bites. Here we go again.
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tango-tee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-17-10 12:35 AM
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20. Ouch! Your poor baby!
Lately I've lived in an area that luckily doesn't have a big mosquito problem. But when I was in Southeast Texas, oooooh boy!

Just a little while ago I read that wiping the inside of a banana peel on the bite will stop the swelling and itching. Don't wipe it off right away, let it sit for about 1 1/2 hours.

It would be worth a try, I think!

:hi:
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MiddleFingerMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-17-10 03:00 PM
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23. There are pluses and minuses to that treatment.
.
Can you daughter come out and play?

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tango-tee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-17-10 11:07 PM
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26. Ooooh. Groan.
:spank:
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Shell Beau Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-17-10 09:02 PM
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24. Interesting. Will definitely give it a try.
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Tommy_Carcetti Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-16-10 09:12 AM
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9. Food chain.
That's about all I see for their purpose.
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TZ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-16-10 09:18 AM
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10. Pretty much.
However when I was at NIH they were working on a way to make mosquitos transmit a VACCINE for malaria from person to person..Cool huh?
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Orsino Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-16-10 09:28 AM
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11. They just took the space that would otherwise be occupied by another Chuggo thread.
That ain't chopped liver.
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DFW Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-16-10 09:37 AM
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13. They serve to enhance hand/eye coordination
Slap accurately, slap quickly, or face the consequences!
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HopeHoops Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-16-10 10:06 AM
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14. They most CERTAINLY do!
How else would malaria and West Nile Virus get spread around so efficiently?
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qnr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-16-10 10:50 AM
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15. Well, they give 'qu' a nice, warm, middle-of-the-word experience - and they built Walter Reed Army
Medical Center.
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Deep13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-16-10 05:49 PM
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18. Sure they do. They are an efficient vehicle for disease organisms.
Doesn't that make you feel better?

:hi:
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Texasgal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-16-10 07:40 PM
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19. They have been heavy here as well.
We've had a very wet winter, so they are everywhere! It's so annoying!!!

My dogs just get attacked when they go outside!!! GRRRR!!!
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jobycom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-17-10 03:22 AM
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21. They are the reason we exist.
It is their world. We are there food. If they had no need of us, we would not be here.
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WillParkinson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-17-10 09:25 AM
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22. Male mosquitoes pollinate plants...
Females have no use that I'm aware of...
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Odin2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-17-10 09:10 PM
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25. Skeeters are important polinators of many plants.
Edited on Sat Apr-17-10 09:11 PM by Odin2005
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hunter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-18-10 12:01 AM
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27. Ain't nobody serve no purpose.
That's why we's all here.
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paulsby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-18-10 05:13 AM
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28. only FEMALE mosquitos suck your blood though
fwiw
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old mark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-18-10 06:24 AM
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29. Mosquitos remind us of our place in the world - they serve to keep us humble.
And to bite the shit out of us.


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