mosquito

[Tom]

They're starting to come out now with all the rain and the warmth. we've had an exceptional crop all winter because it's been so warm,  now we're really in for it with summer coming and they have a running start.

[Tillaway]

Mosquitos.... what are those? :  It is a little dry around my place to really notice any. But the ones we do have are little tiny stealthy buggers that you don't even notice until you are covered with bites.  The Alaska ones weigh about two pounds apiece so you can't help to know when ones lands on you.

[woodman]

    May and June we get small black flyes can't see them shure can feal them when thay bite.

[Tom]

Last summer I was sneaking up on some turkeys in the backyard.  They kept moving away but not too fast and I just knew I was going to get one.  When I got about 200 feet from the house, they turned and attacked me. It wasn't turkeys at all, it was some little mosquitoes and they were going to take me back in the swamp where the big ones were.  I was lucky to have been no further from the back door or I wouldn't have made it.
 
And that's the truth.

[CHARLIE]

That ain't no skeeter Tom. That's small enough to be a gnat. If you wanna see big skeeters and lots of 'em, come to Minnesota. They are HUGE. We also have black flies up north in the Boundary Waters. I'd rather have swarms of skeeters than swarms of black flies any day. Those black flies take chunks of meat when they bite.

Now if ya wanna have fun with a skeeter, wait til she bites you. Then pinch the skin where she's stuck her proboscis in. She can't pull it out and has to just keep sucking blood. Then, just before she burst....she'll be big and red....then turn loose. She'll try and fly but will be too heavy and will fall to the ground. Then you can stomp it like a bag of ketchup. Blood everywhere.  Ooooeeeee! More fun!!! 8) 8) 8) 8) 8)

[Paul_H]

Jeff,I took the liberty of borrowing these :D


Thanks. Good yarn boys.My daughter is still laughing.( who are those guys?)
                           8)

[Bud Man]

Mosquito's with this Nile Virus have shown up in the Memphis area and the health dept. folks have shown up at my door and made me drain my pond.(25 by 50) Thought about taking on city hall but you know what they say about fighting city hall. They did however tell me what it would take to meet code so for once I'll conform and follow the rules, sure ain't the natural thing for me to do though. Figured if I battled em they'd find some other things I'm out of focus or bending the rules on too. My ducks ain't exactly cricket in the city and 7 dogs is over the limit and.......Hell's Bell's I even filed my Taxes this year, must be getting mellow in my old age !

[Jeff]

I new them boots were goona come in handy...  

Michigan has ya all beat on skeeters, whe we even had one hanging on the U.S. Capital Christmas tree.

U.P. Skeeter

[CHARLIE]

I'd match a Minnesota Hybrid Skeeter against any of those puny things the rest of y'all have......even a Texas skeeter.

Another fun thing I do......on a slow hunting or fishing day... is see how many skeeters I can kill with one slap. My record is 7 skeeters. Sometimes I'd get so busy trying to beat that record that I'd miss a duck flying by or a strike at my line. Oooeeeeee! More Fun than a barrel of uhhhhhhhh....hmmmm.....can't remember what's in the barrel.

One time, my hunting buddy, Bob and I were set up at a beaver pond in the backwaters of the Mississippi (30 minutes of hard walking through bogs and woods). The hunting was good that day but the skeeters were thicker than molasses on a cold day. Well, here came a few woodies. Bob jumped up and squeezed of a round and then his gun jammed. Bob never cussed and just calmly sat down and started to unjam his gun. But it took both hands. The skeeters decended on him in force. Pretty soon he dang near went insane. He couldn't swat skeeters and unjam his gun too. He started screaming at the skeeters and then he started swearing at the skeeters. He was going berserk!  I sat there enjoying the show and was thinking of shooting him just to put him out of his misery.....but I decided not to 'cause then I'd have to carry him out. So, I slllllooooowly got up and fanned Bob with my hat while he unjammed his gun. Sheeeesh that was fun! 8) 8) 8) 8) 8)    

[Texas Ranger]

Hmm, yall call them skeeters?  Why, down here in Texas, bout las summer, two chillun was playing in the yard when two skeeters attack em.  Them chillun clum under a wash pot and pulled it over their haids.  Well, them skeeters stuck their beaks through that wash pot, them chillen bent them beaks over, and them skeeters flew off with maws brand new wash pot. ;D

[Jeff]

Don, you did see the waders?  

I have to get over to that new thread on timber framing. Bibbyman said you had to use dry pine for pegs, we uses U.P. skeeter beaks. Never run out.