Southern thing.

[customsawyer]

I always get a kick out of folks around here talking about our "cold weather". Which I'm not a fan of. Every year I get to hear about how we need some good freezing weather so it will kill the mosquitos and fleas. I always just ask them how them same critters are able to live up north if they think cold weather kills them. You will always get to see the wheels upstairs start turning.

[thecfarm]

If only the cold freezing weather would do that.
But the birds need to eat too.
Not many fleas in my area, just ticks.

[customsawyer]

Yeah I forgot about the ticks. We think we can freeze them to death too.

[TreefarmerNN]

Our cold probably doesn't do much for ticks but sometimes we get cold enough to slow down the pine bark beetles.  That might happen this week, lol.

[Nebraska]

Balmy 14 degrees here, actually not horrible for now, can attest the ticks don't usually show back up til the Lilac bushes think about blooming. Fleas and lice are open for business.   

[Magicman]

I am no expert but I have traveled North America quite extensively having visited every State and every Province.  It seems that the further North I am the more I am bothered with mosquitos and black flies.  The most mosquitos that I have ever seen was in Alaska.

[twar]

t seems that the further North I am the more I am bothered with mosquitos and black flies.

No shortage of crawling, flying, swarming, biting, stinging critters here in the North--in the summer, but all's quiet now.

[Resonator]

I've heard in Minnesota the mosquito is the state bird...
I think dry weather in summer does just as much to keep the numbers down, fewer pools of standing water for them to lay their eggs.

[Jeff]

I travel very little,  but I can tell you the black fles deer flies mosquitoes and most everything else, including ticks are far worse 3 hours north than they are here.  The only critters I experienced in my limited excursions south, were knats at Jakes.

(Saved by da draft function yea!!)

[NewYankeeSawmill]

The only critters I experienced in my limited excursions south, were knats at Jakes.

(Saved by da draft function yea!!)

Chigger's will drive you nuts!

[SawyerTed]

It's a southern thing, you wouldn't understand.. 

 

Don't think about chiggers and nuts in the same sentence....

[Machinebuilder]

I keep hearing about cold killing the ticks, one of the worst places I found for ticks was in Manitoba near Duck Mountain PP.
It's far enough north that the temp most hit way below 0.

The worst mosquitos were at Galbraith Lake, North of the Brooks range on the Dalton hwy.

[Jeff]

The only critters I experienced in my limited excursions south, were knats at Jakes.

(Saved by da draft function yea!!)

Chigger's will drive you nuts!

Oh crap, I forgot about those. I'm pretty sure Brother Noble led me on purpose through a patch by the river while wearing shorts in drury Missouri the day before we came back to Michigan. I remember calling him the day I got home asking what I may have been exposed to. He laughed the entire conversation as he played coy.

[Magicman]

The worst mosquitos were at Galbraith Lake, North of the Brooks range on the Dalton hwy.

Dave just verified my statement about Alaska. 

[Mooseherder]

The silver lining for cold in Florida is people hope for it to kill Pythons and Iguanas.

[WV Sawmiller]

  It is amazing what the critters will survive. I remember shooting a large cottonmouth when it was 20 degrees and I was duck hunting in N. Fla in 1971. He was swimming down a creek with ice on the edges in a beaver infested area. I don't know what prompted him to be out but I sure never expected to see one moving in that kind of weather.

[TroyC]

Around Jake's there is a thing known as the Gnat Line. Seriously. Google it...........

[Magicman]

I have told before about a taxidermist friend of mine that captured a live Timber Rattler that he wanted to mount.  Not wanting to damage it in any way he dropped it in his freezer and froze it solid.  When the time came to mount it, he took it out of the freezer to thaw.  Yup, when it thawed it was "live" again and ready for business.

[Jeff]

One thing that I discovered down to Lynn's that we don't see here ever, that totally grossed me out, was Whitetail Nasal Bots! Like a horror film!!

[Magicman]

was Whitetail Nasal Bots! Like a horror film!!

Taste a lot like Longhorn Beetle "sawyer grubs". 

[Jeff]

More appealing than a foot shot for sure! ;)

[rusticretreater]

Ewwwww.  

[Ljohnsaw]

I think the shorter warm season up north makes the pesky critters more frantic.

Watching old reruns of Dirty Jobs on Max. He did a segment down in the south a year after a hurricane. At a mosquito lab, they breed them for research. Brush some eggs in a vial, add some warm water, shake and they hatch out in 10 minutes!

[Texas Ranger]

Fire ants have done the deed with ticks and redbugs (chiggers) and quail and turkey.  take the bad with the  good.

[Texas Ranger]

I always heard those Mississippi boys will eat anything that doesn't eat them.