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Monday, July 24, 2023

Meanwhile, in Alaska.....


 

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  1. They were Terrible! We were on the Kenai Peninsula last few weeks of May and then most of June. Nothing around until we had a few hot days, then they were everywhere. I had to wear a head net and spray copious amounts of Deep Woods Off just to keep them at bay. Even then they were biting thru the clothes and just as soon as one (or more) bite stopped itching, here comes the new ones!

    I was ever so glad to get back over the CA border in W. Wa, haven't been bit once since returning.

    -Ed in Wa

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  2. Our state bird. Friendly critters, they are. Always ready to greet you. Sez, 1st ANGLICO

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    1. The pic shows the lil’uns as the first hatch produces what we call 747’s. They are slow, a tad dumb and less aggressive. First rain brings on the lil’uns. Oh yeah, great tourist deterrent. We put up swallow houses in spring but they leave around the 4th of July and then the dragonflies take over. Yes now that darkness is slowly returning the mosquito eating bats are returning. (truth be told, nothing like the mosquitoes in Vietnam, made life miserable) sez 1st ANGLICO

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  3. I think it'll be cockroaches and mosquitos att the end.

    Mosquitos can be found nearly everywhere in the world, even Siberia. Yet we call them mosquitis, after a coastal region in the Caribbean. Eskimos have 124 words to describe snow. But what did the call the winged death with a drilling rig out front?

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  4. Went camping in Alaska stood in the smoke of the fire to get away from them. Literally billions and billions of them. ( That's the best Carl Sagan I can do...)

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  5. Deep Woods Off won’t cut it. Use something with 100% Deet. Thermacels work well, unless there’s a breeze. The Kenai is almost bug free compared to the northern Interior.
    JFM

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  6. I've been pumping up the B vitamins since I moved to bugville; the deer flies aren't as thick as skeeters but their bite is much worse.
    They don't like my smell when I'm excreting that stuff.

    CC

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  7. Try several Vitamin B Complex 3 times a day. Your pee will look and smell nuclear, but it will slow the Mosquitos down. We used it when we shook pears 40 years ago.

    It also helps feet when you get older. I've been taking them for that for several years and have been telling my wife to try them. She is an RN and resisted, but the other day, she did agree that they help her feet.

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  8. The text says "Alaska". But the picture says "Columbia".

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  9. Pro tip: I usually wear lightweight military surplus wool pants and shirts mainly because mosquitoes can't bite through wool. Also, wool also remains warm when wet and is almost fireproof. Mosquitoes can easily bite through cotton and are attracted to the color blue (like blue jeans!). Head nets are useful and sometimes essential. If worst comes to worst, a 12 Ga. might be required and #10 shot maximizes the number of mosquitoes killed per round. If flying in a small plane be aware of the survival gear law:

    Alaska Statute 02.35.110i Emergency Rations & Equipment requires that an airman may not make a flight inside the state with an aircraft unless emergency equipment is carried as follows:

    The minimum equipment during the summers months is: food for each occupant for one week; one axe or hatchet; one first aid kit; an assortment of fishing tackle such as hooks, flies, and sinkers; one knife; fire starter; one mosquito headnet for each occupant; and two signaling devices such as colored smoke bombs, pistol shells, etc. sealed in metal containers.

    In addition to the above, the following must be carried as minimum equipment from October 15 to April 1 of each year: one pair of snowshoes; one sleeping bag; one wool blanket for each occupant over four.

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  10. Could be my back yard some years.
    There's a swamp about 1/4 of a mile north of my house.

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  11. Definitely not taken in Saskatchewan or Manitoba..... the mosquitos left some skin exposed and the horseflies haven't joined in with the noseeums and sandflies.
    After they are done, they gang-rape you and steal your credit card.

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  12. Interesting fact. The Wright Brothers had to set smudgepots in and around their assembly building in North Carolina when they were trying to fly.

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  13. From what I remember of Adak 40 years ago- they're kinda on the small side.

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  14. Let the malathion fly!!!

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  15. You can keep horseflies, deerflies, and mooseflies at bay by coating a BLUE Solo cup with the stickum they use on fly paper, available on Amazon.
    Those biting, chewing pull-a-hunkaflesh bastards are drawn to the color blue and will literally coat the entire surface.

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