There's A herd of skeeters here this summer like I ain't seen for a long time!

Been wet all spring and musta been a blue ribbon hatch of them.

Not too bad yet here, but just dumped the dog dish and a scrap of water on the top of an overturned pail, larvae in both, so.....they're on their way...

They're exceptionally thick down this way too.

A worthy investment.

Hobbie, an ex friend of mine.....has two houses at the marina that are full, no skeetos....but the birds like the gourds better than the houses, you ever try the gourds?

I grew some and put them up one year. They were not very durable but the birds did like them l. I have about 100 or so ready the be processed when I figure out how to improve the durability.

My friend gets the commercially made ones with a clean out, but they are expensive , but the birds pick them over the houses.

Hippie, go over and fish Lost Creek if you want to see mosquitoes
Still a lot of trout in the creek if you get off the beaten path where the mosquitoes are the worst
Peppermint is a great mosquito repellent, fresh or the oil

Didn't fish Lost Crick this year, I usually do but caught my share up Licking Crick and didn't need to.

Amish around here have them up, always wondered why....now I know.

You can plant certain flowers, plants, to attract dragonflies. They'll put a whuppin on the skeeters.

Dragonflies can only eat so many, lol

I know one salt marsh that has these smaller black dragonflies by the many thousands hunting mosquitos and gnats, still get bit up, lol

You gotta look real close to see the skeeters.

Skeeters ain't to bad here yet, i think the ticks ate them all.

Not a single mosquito around here.....






.....all married with large families!

…. Getting ate up by them right now

Won't go out in the evening without my Thermocell. They are thick here too.

Vampire bugs. One more reason to hate summer

Bats seem way better as skeeter eater seeing as they are both out at night. Our purple martins don't start feeding till about a half hour after sunrise but do eat a lot of them in the evening hours at last light

I have yet to put mosquito dope on here this year. It is unreal and I have never seen a spring/summer like this before. I am sure with the rain we have finally started getting it will change any day but so far we have had almost no skeeters and I love it.

One of the better years here. Been dry here for a number of years but even though we have gotten some nice rains it still as been really good. At the ranch being right on the river, again no flooding when melt came so that has made a difference. No excess standing water is a good thing.