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21-07-2020 04:46 PM
21-07-2020 04:46 PM
Mosquitos... In Winter?
Am I the only one finding that I'm practically being eaten alive by mosquitos this winter? Okay, that's an exaggeration, but there wouldn't be a week that goes by where I don't either see one buzzing around my house or get bitten. And it's not the same one over and ove again because I've killed at least half a dozen of them.
I don't think I've ever seen a mosquito in winter before around here, let alone the numbers I've seen this winter.
I'm not in tropical QLD, either. Where I live it gets quite frosty in the winter and this season's been no exception.
Anybody else having a similar experiance?
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21-07-2020 06:06 PM
21-07-2020 06:06 PM
Re: Mosquitos... In Winter?
might have had the odd one, more in autumn. i had a fly though if that's any help
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21-07-2020 06:28 PM
21-07-2020 06:28 PM
Re: Mosquitos... In Winter?
@chibam Hi chibam I saw this new gadget that you wear on your arm like a watch. it repels mozzies safely without poisons. It recharges in 30 mins (I cannot remember how much it cost or how long it lasted) but I thought about trying it out. Saw this on You Tube. Might be worth a look.
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21-07-2020 09:16 PM
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22-07-2020 02:50 AM
22-07-2020 02:50 AM
Re: Mosquitos... In Winter?
@plasmo wrote:might have had the odd one, more in autumn. i had a fly though if that's any help
Yeah, I saw one back in about May, I think - which is insanely late in the year for us to be seeing flies around here.
@greenpea wrote:@chibam Hi chibam I saw this new gadget that you wear on your arm like a watch. it repels mozzies safely without poisons. It recharges in 30 mins (I cannot remember how much it cost or how long it lasted) but I thought about trying it out. Saw this on You Tube. Might be worth a look.
Yeah, those sorts of things have been around for ages. When I was a kid, I remember reading a book about how you could build the basic mechanism for one of those things yourself. The trick is knowing which ones genuinely work and which ones are just moneyspinners.
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22-07-2020 05:14 AM
22-07-2020 05:14 AM
Re: Mosquitos... In Winter?
@chibam yes if I come across it again I will let you know the brand so that you can have a look. Mozzies are awful and with the warmer winters the more we will experience mozzies. Do you keep folliage to a minimum around the house and get rid of any stagnent water around the house?
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23-07-2020 12:40 AM
23-07-2020 12:40 AM
Re: Mosquitos... In Winter?
its water not temp re mozzies think @chibam I remember getting eaten alive by them in cold in queensland forest in winter
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24-07-2020 02:31 PM - edited 24-07-2020 02:32 PM
24-07-2020 02:31 PM - edited 24-07-2020 02:32 PM
Re: Mosquitos... In Winter?
I haven't seen any recently but I did hear on the radio that a mosquito starts every day with a choice to be violent....so I don't like them!!
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24-07-2020 04:45 PM
24-07-2020 04:45 PM
Re: Mosquitos... In Winter?
It's funny you should both mention water. Short answer to your question is that, no, I don't know of any stagnant water around the place. But over the summer, we developed a stain on our roof that's obviously come from some newly-developed leak that we haven't been able to trace. So is it possible that there's stagnant water hiding somewhere in our rafters? I can't rule it out.
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24-07-2020 04:55 PM
24-07-2020 04:55 PM