• gaston1592@feddit.de
    35·
    8 months ago

    Also new and interesting mosquito species, like the tiger mosquito, are now becoming endemic even north of the alps.

    • hstde@feddit.de
      8·
      8 months ago

      There is a bay near me where they thrive.

      They are thriving so well, that they reach our house.

      I hate those things.

      Send help.

      Please.

  • cevn@lemmy.world
    14·
    8 months ago

    Yall need to go to India. Just got back with dozens of bites after wearing long sleeve and sweatpants the whole time. Every day is a constant battle against 30-50 mosquitoes.

    I went to a party near a lake and saw something that shook me to my core. Swarms of hundreds of mosquitoes just flying around as tho they were gnats. I don’t care about the eco web or whatever, scientists need to just delete these guys from existence

    • EmoDuck@sh.itjust.works
      17·
      8 months ago

      Your comment was “Yall need to go to India” followed by five sentences listing reasons why we very much shouldn’t go to India

      • cevn@lemmy.world
        6·
        8 months ago

        Haha. It will put your mosquito problem into a different perspective, thats all I’m saying.

    • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
      6·
      8 months ago

      Vitamin B-12 tablets will help there. I grew up in a highly tick, flea, chigger, and mosquito infested area. My parents shoved B-12 tablets down our throats as soon as it started to get warm every year. We almost never go bitten, as long as we kept taking the daily tablet.

      You’ll sweat it out, and B-12 is the smell you have associated with fresh baked bread. The tablets smell like a commercial bakery. Sweating it out gives your skin a slight bitter oder, and masks the smell of your blood.

    • BluesF@lemmy.world
      4·
      8 months ago

      There are genuine proposals to eradicate (some species of) mosquitos with wacky gene editing techniques.

    • 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de
      4·
      8 months ago

      Every time someone describes that kinda thing I get a sudden urge to get one of those electric tennis racquet things and carry it with me 24/7 in case I come across a swarm like that

      • cevn@lemmy.world
        3·
        8 months ago

        We do have them but every generation of mosquitoes seems better at avoiding them. I swear as soon as I whip the bat out the mosquito disappears.

      • BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca
        1·
        8 months ago

        Man are those things satisfying. I get so excited when I find bugs flying around in the house now.

    • nikt@lemmy.caEnglish
      3·
      8 months ago

      To be fair, this is basically most of northern Canada in May/June as well. Also add black flies to the mix, which take small, anesthetized chunks out of you to make you bleed so that they can lick the blood off your skin… sometimes in clouds so thick, you have no choice but to just let it happen.

      • rbesfe@lemmy.ca
        3·
        8 months ago

        People who say mosquitoes are the worst insects have never encountered black flies. I completely avoid going north in May and June because of those fuckers

      • cevn@lemmy.world
        2·
        8 months ago

        Wtf… I have had a horsefly bite before which I think is similar and that shit actually hurts. I would take mosquitoes over that any day…

        • nikt@lemmy.caEnglish
          2·
          8 months ago

          Horseflies are big and they hurt! Black flies are small and completely silent and hurt only afterwards. They also keep bleeding and bleeding… No bueno.

  • Lojcs@lemm.ee
    10·
    8 months ago

    Caught a couple flying around in the house throughout the winter myself. I don’t think I got bit but thought it was ridiculous that they were still around.

    Edit: Not since the new year though thankfully

    • manny_stillwagon@mander.xyz
      11·
      8 months ago

      Do you have a fireplace or wood burning stove? Mosquitos hide dormant in dead wood over the winter, so it’s not uncommon to bring in some logs from outside and have the mosquitos inside wake up, thinking it’s spring in your nice warm house.

      I learned this when I was getting bites inside my own house with sub-freezing temperatures outside.

    • khannie@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      8 months ago

      Same and same. I kept wondering when they would finally die off. They were big fuckers too!

  • lurch (he/him)@sh.itjust.works
    5·
    8 months ago

    i have seen them swarm outside, yesterday.

    today i saw the first housefly after the winter waiting outside my kitchen window, when i was about to let fresh air in. opened it just a bit and shooed that thing away before actually opening it.

  • Godric@lemmy.world
    51·
    8 months ago

    See meme

    See Mosquito later that evening

    I woke up with my ankles bit to hell, thanks for summoning it

  • scaredoftrumpwinning@lemmy.world
    21·
    8 months ago

    My son already got his first tick bite for the year and we are in the New England area so Lyme disease is a worry. Wood tick so wrong species but the deer ticks are harder to see.