PLEASE STOP spraying for mosquitos (2024)

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Dragonflies eat mosquitos and other insects. I was visiting a friend down in Goodland FL (look it up) years ago. Early in the morning a helicopter flew low over head and we could see "stuff" coming out of it. I asked Carol and she said: "Oh, they dump out Dragonflies to control the mosquitos!" The helicopter made quite a few passes every morning.

So there's another way to control those pests. I imagine it would be more expensive than what we do here.

Date Posted: 6/19/2024 3:16 PM

I was looking for some pest work and disregarded the companies that offered mosquito/tick spray (ground zero service) for the yard.

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The mosquito truck used to drive through our neighborhood a couple times during the summer. You could hear it coming a couple streets away. We kids would run behind it in the “fog” for fun. I’m sure it wasn’t the healthiest thing to do but
no one ever thought anything of it.
I seem to remember still getting lots of mosquito bites.
Late 1960’s

I think the reason that I am so healthy at age 75 is because I breathed so much DDT and diesel exhaust when I was young. We called it the smoke truck and would ride behind it on our bicycles, the closer the better.

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Date Posted: 6/19/2024 5:57 PM

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I call the fogging truck that drives through the HI neighborhoods, the agent orange truck. It can't be good really even though I have been told that the chemicals are not supposed to be bad for humans. Who knows anymore??!!

Date Posted: 6/19/2024 10:22 PM

We have pretty cool black-bodied dragon/damsel flies with almost clear wings, except for a little black patch about mid wing. They fly fast and maybe a foot above the grass when you're walking around. I nicknamed them stealth flies because they are really hard to see in the shade or when the sun is low. They show up in the spring a couple of weeks after the biting midges and deer flies come out. Once the job is complete, the stealth flies move on, presumably to the north.

We call them escorts. The deer flies dare not mess with us when we walk down the driveway when these guys are around.

Date Posted: 6/20/2024 6:18 PM

Ah, such great memories.

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What kid growing up in South Jersey in the 60's can forget this? Nothing like a dose of DDT before mom called us in for the night.

Ah, such great memories.

Yep. "The bug truck" was in Williamsburg, Va. too.

One couple up the street were hippies... err... granolas... let's just say the mom didn't shave. If their kids were out of their compound when the bug truck came by it was sheer terror. And their kids were the ones that liked to ride their bikes right behind it breathing in all the goodness. The rest of us kids in the hood figured that probably wasn't a good idea.

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Or is it titmice?

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Sorry, it’s a slow morning here on the farm.

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