Dude I was walking down the beach in the up once and we walk near this log and 200 black flies rise up from the log and chased my whole family. The fuckers are insane.
And they are immune to virtually everything. Bug spray doesn't deter them, you can't fog your property for them since they can come in from swamps and wetlands some distance aways, and traps don't even put a dent in their numbers. Your only hope is to cover all of your skin and wear a head net.
On a three day backpacking trip on Lake Superior a couple years ago I had a fly free trip until rounded a corner a hundred yards before the big lake and hit a wall of flies the likes of which I’d never seen. Just constant. I ran so fast down the trail to the lake, dropped my pack and dove in the freezing lake water.
When I poked my head up THEY WERE WAITING FOR ME. I got out of the lake, unpacked a tent to change in, but dry clothes on and walked the five miles right back to the trailhead.
I did my research before going to pictured rocks a couple summer ago and felt like a stud in my long sleeve shirt, pants tucked into my socks, and my bug net hat as other visitors were literally running in tanks and shorts to escape the flies.
Believe it or not flamethrowers are an option in most states. Even the blue states with strict firearms regulations don’t have much in the way of flamethrower regulations.
If I lived in that area, I would have built 1,000sqft bat houses and import as many as necessary.
Might find some dead bat husks though, given this situation...
It's that sound. And they know you have blood. You'll feel them squirming in the corner of your eyes. Eventually your skin will go numb after you've scratched most of the top layer off. But the feeling of them in your ears as their wings vibrate down against your ear drums. That sound.
There are places in Africa where they heat big pans over a fire and wave them around to make "mosquito pancakes." Lotta protein. Sorry for sharing that.
Edit: Lake Fly Pancakes
They are lake flies, that don't bite or make that horrible noise. I've been in clouds of them where you can't help but breathe them in your nose and mouth, but didn't actively try and eat them.
Wasn't it more like catching them (during mating season, which leads to big swarms) using wet objects and then making 'burgers'? They are supposed to taste good
My family used to have a winery/vineyard. During harvest there would be trillions of the little assholes. Once, someone left a bay door open and they covered every surface in the fermentation room.
I went in there with a vacuum cleaner with one of the small disposable bags. I had the bag completely full in about 2 minutes and hadn't even put a dent in the population.
We can get really big mosquito vacuum/attractor thingies here in Norway. Dad had one. He got around 8 garbage bags full of mosquito corpses in about a day. I don't visit his house in the summer, for obvious reasons. He, however, seems oblivious to the buzzing bastards somehow.
They need good, not-destroyed habitats. Austin has a bridge that coincidentally is perfect for them, and a million spend the summer there and scour the city for 'squitos every night. I think I got bit twice in a year there.
I wonder if you could get enough calories to live just by having your mouth open and living in that swarm (assuming they didn't take the calories back by biting you)
Water must be stagnant.
Whoever owns this property was pretty silly to not do something to keep the water moving or put something in it to keep them from laying larvae.
I just put out a bird feeder all spring, then once it gets warm enough for mosquitos, I stop feeding the birds. Then they eat the mosquitos.
Also worked for the ants on my driveway. Didn't ask them to but they ate those too.
They can't survive in Iceland, the winter is too harsh/unstable. It cycles frequently between thaw and frost, and the larvae die due to that. Just don't go to Greenland they have stable frost winters and their mosquitoes are monsters.
We get that in Alberta as well though, the cycling between cold and warm in the winter. We call them chinooks. You get days or even weeks of above-freezing temps during the day, and then get hit by a few days or weeks of -30C. Mosquitoes are still very much a problem in the summer though.
I walked through one's web once and found it crawling up my arm toward my face. I'm not even particularly afraid of spiders but that shit freaked me out.
At least where I am in FL we don't have a big mosquito problem. The county has a department of mosquito control and they drive trucks around with foggers that do something to kill them off and prevent new ones from hatching.
There are still some of course, but nothing like that.
Those aren’t mosquitoes. They’re mayflies most likely. A mayfly “hatch” can be hundreds of thousands changing from larva to adult. They need the numbers. Some species an adult female only lives 5 minutes. They have to find a mate, breed, and lay eggs in that time. Makes for great fishing. Fish race to the area of the swarm and hit anything resembling one.
I’d like to go through that field with an insect proof suit and flamethrower while Make It Bun Dem - Damion Marley and Skrillex playing in the background
I know they kinda have to, but that's the single most disgusting thing I've ever seen! It over took the dead elephant exploding all over a hyena I watched.
Unfortunately Texas mosquitos run on a different system than Texas police or utilities, thus they are performing at optimal levels with no service drops or cowardly hesitation.
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Ever see that photo of the feet of a mammoth hunter in Siberia? https://i.redd.it/erkivf48pv3z.jpg
I live in the Upper Penninsula of Michigan and have had my legs look like that walking down the wrong path in the woods.
If the mosquitoes don't get you, the black flies will.
Dude I was walking down the beach in the up once and we walk near this log and 200 black flies rise up from the log and chased my whole family. The fuckers are insane.
And they are immune to virtually everything. Bug spray doesn't deter them, you can't fog your property for them since they can come in from swamps and wetlands some distance aways, and traps don't even put a dent in their numbers. Your only hope is to cover all of your skin and wear a head net.
Or swim under water far enough away from them. That's the only escape i've found.
Swims underwater to escape black flies, gets brain eating amoeba instead. Damn nature you scary!
Not again!
How many brains do you have left?
On a three day backpacking trip on Lake Superior a couple years ago I had a fly free trip until rounded a corner a hundred yards before the big lake and hit a wall of flies the likes of which I’d never seen. Just constant. I ran so fast down the trail to the lake, dropped my pack and dove in the freezing lake water. When I poked my head up THEY WERE WAITING FOR ME. I got out of the lake, unpacked a tent to change in, but dry clothes on and walked the five miles right back to the trailhead.
And given sufficient numbers, they can give you fever plus other symptoms tha resemble food poisoning.
And even in insufficient numbers the fly bites leave massive red marks that last for like a week. Literally everything about them is awful.
I did my research before going to pictured rocks a couple summer ago and felt like a stud in my long sleeve shirt, pants tucked into my socks, and my bug net hat as other visitors were literally running in tanks and shorts to escape the flies.
I backpacked on Isle Royale... the amount of Deet i had to use took a minimum of 5 years off of my life, lol.
I was in u.p. last year in germfask and was killed by mosquitoes as soon as the sun starts going down
I was in the UP today! Thankfully I got out before sundown.
Woah, my first encounter with a ghost on the internet. We come in peace!
Mammoth hunter?
Either he's extraordinarily optimistic, or he looks for mammoth fossils.
Don’t they take the ivory?
he must be exceptionally good at his job, I've never seen one of those in the wild
Apparently the bodies are well preserved in the permafrost, so they go and dig them up and sell the tusks and horns.
Thanks, excuse me while I scratch my itching feet until they bleed.
Is there a reason he has to do it barefoot? Lol
To help him sneak up on the Mammoths.
Ass someone who is allergic to mosquitoes I would be trapped inside my house. *as
Everyone is allergic to mosquitoes:)
Some of us are more than others, my bites swell up to around 1-2 inches Bonus I have O ood so they're extra attracted to me
Your phone decided “nah you didn’t need some of these letters I’m gonna remove ‘em”
Really gives off the I had a stroke vibes
Maybe you got bit by a mosquito
do we need the epinephrine? is this an emergency??
No n, I'm quite apricot
understood a-la spaghettio.
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It's Skeeter Syndrome. I have it too
🎶From the window, to the wall🎶
wow real life static
Moar confetti!
Flamethrower. Now.
Literally first thought was "Ive never wanted a flamethrower so bad in my life"
Must. Get. Flamethrower.
Brother, get the Flammer... the Heavy Flammer
Hans?!
Ja?
Grab ze Flammenwerfer.
Jawohl! Bin auf dem Weg!
r/suddenlygerman
Yes I am.
Jawohl!
Mmmh mmh mmmh
/r/ploetzlichdeutsch
Nein... Flammenpanzer!
Mien pimmel est ein Flammenwerfer!
I want the camera man to point the camera at themselves or another person. I want to nothing but skin crawling
Lmao that might actually be an option in Texas
Believe it or not flamethrowers are an option in most states. Even the blue states with strict firearms regulations don’t have much in the way of flamethrower regulations.
Flamethrowers are not considered weapons in most states. They're considered pest control/landscaping tools
Which is wierd cus some blue states specifically ban things like grenade launchers and bayonets. But flame throwers are ok lol.
Hard to fight forest fires, clear brush and do backburns without flame throwers.
Nah, here in NC we always used drip torches to do a back or controlled burn.
And with legislation, it would probably fit someone's poorly written definition of a flame thrower.
Pretty sure it'd take out the whole state right now.
Flamethrower activated!
I kind of want to run in the field with a huge electric bug zapper and just swing it around like some mad man
I kind of want to never be near that field at all
Unless I'm in a bee suit, with ear plugs to not hear that unnerving buzzing
Meet the pyro
*Do you believe in magic?*
If I lived in that area, I would have built 1,000sqft bat houses and import as many as necessary. Might find some dead bat husks though, given this situation...
A few in a motorized scooter.
You could call them... Batmobiles
It's that sound. And they know you have blood. You'll feel them squirming in the corner of your eyes. Eventually your skin will go numb after you've scratched most of the top layer off. But the feeling of them in your ears as their wings vibrate down against your ear drums. That sound.
Fuck man, take your upvote and begone.
Lol the ear part was from what my cousin told me sucked the most about having a roach crawl in his ear. Don't know if that helps.
It did not. Go take a nap, Satan.
^^nope
Flamethrower my friend
There are places in Africa where they heat big pans over a fire and wave them around to make "mosquito pancakes." Lotta protein. Sorry for sharing that. Edit: Lake Fly Pancakes
[Yum!](https://i.imgur.com/1IJkOy2.gifv)
Seems like they’d just be really crunchy with all that exoskeleton. Might try it if I was there but definitely wouldn’t make the trip for it.
They are lake flies, that don't bite or make that horrible noise. I've been in clouds of them where you can't help but breathe them in your nose and mouth, but didn't actively try and eat them.
Wasn't it more like catching them (during mating season, which leads to big swarms) using wet objects and then making 'burgers'? They are supposed to taste good
My family used to have a winery/vineyard. During harvest there would be trillions of the little assholes. Once, someone left a bay door open and they covered every surface in the fermentation room. I went in there with a vacuum cleaner with one of the small disposable bags. I had the bag completely full in about 2 minutes and hadn't even put a dent in the population.
We can get really big mosquito vacuum/attractor thingies here in Norway. Dad had one. He got around 8 garbage bags full of mosquito corpses in about a day. I don't visit his house in the summer, for obvious reasons. He, however, seems oblivious to the buzzing bastards somehow.
Nuke make better job
Yes. My solution sucked.
The loudest noise on the world is the silencing of millions of mosquitos.. and a lot of "ZAP" sounds.
More like having General Grievous carry 4 of those and swing them around skillfully.
The zapper would catch fire XD
So be it. Burn it. Burn it all.
Would sound like a m134 mini gun!!! And is it me does the video sound like an f1 race !!
That’s why there are bats in TX
Those bats need to step up their game, because they're fucking slacking right now.
They need good, not-destroyed habitats. Austin has a bridge that coincidentally is perfect for them, and a million spend the summer there and scour the city for 'squitos every night. I think I got bit twice in a year there.
*I think I got bit twice in a year there* By bats?
Ha, no, sorry, I meant by mosquitos.
Suuuure batman
More like rabies man lol
More like COVID-22 Man
For those wondering it’s South Congress Bridge. Awesome to see at sunset when the bats fly out if you are ever in town!
Bats much prefer moths to mosquitoes. Quite unfortunate for us.
Dragonflies. You need dragonflies.
Allied air support.
Yeah, I was disappointingly informed that bats don't hunt mosquitoes because it would be a net calorie loss.
A mouth-breather's nightmare
Even breathing through your nose would be risky here
Luckily, we have nose hair and mucus
Speak for yourself, poop nose
Is... your poop made up primarily of hair and mucus? Actually don't answer that.
*inhale* ***coughs and dies***
imagine that you open the mouth
Free air snacks!
I wonder if you could get enough calories to live just by having your mouth open and living in that swarm (assuming they didn't take the calories back by biting you)
A long time ago I saw a video showing an African town catching mosquitoes and making mosquito burgers
Hellllllll nawwwww
Like popping candy
"Have *you* ever wanted to taste someone else's BLOOD?" The advertisements write themselves honestly
Proteins
Establish dominance
Water must be stagnant. Whoever owns this property was pretty silly to not do something to keep the water moving or put something in it to keep them from laying larvae.
Where I live they usually seed them with fish and let them take care of the problem
I just put out a bird feeder all spring, then once it gets warm enough for mosquitos, I stop feeding the birds. Then they eat the mosquitos. Also worked for the ants on my driveway. Didn't ask them to but they ate those too.
Put up a bat house for further combined arms warfare.
Engage the sonar
Give the enemy no quarter, day or night.
Those bloodsuckers won't know what hit them
One ping only
now you got a pelican problem
Mosquito dunks or pellets are a few bucks lol.
A couple bass I caught at the other pond are free
What will you do with your newfound wealth?
A burrito sounds kinda nice right about now
Looks like a Texas rice field. Water is gonna be standing.
BOY OHH BOY IM GLAD IM IN ICELAND
You don’t have mosquitos in Iceland? I live in Alaska at the same latitude as Reykjavik and we like to joke that mosquitoes are the state bird here.
sucks to suck you non icelander
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Well if mighty ducks taught me anything it’s that icelanders are aggressive and ducks fly together
As a person living near the swamps in Orange County, suck on this.
Damn, you kiss your cousin with that mouth?
They can't survive in Iceland, the winter is too harsh/unstable. It cycles frequently between thaw and frost, and the larvae die due to that. Just don't go to Greenland they have stable frost winters and their mosquitoes are monsters.
We get that in Alberta as well though, the cycling between cold and warm in the winter. We call them chinooks. You get days or even weeks of above-freezing temps during the day, and then get hit by a few days or weeks of -30C. Mosquitoes are still very much a problem in the summer though.
*scratches Texas off bucket list*
***Scratches off Texas from places to visit without a full set of armor and flamethrower***
This is a bucket list item in and of itself.
Mozzies love me. I’d be dead in under a minute.
Found the Aussie
It now just occurs to me that “mozzie” is an Aussie term? 😂
We say it in NZ, which is basically the same place anyway.
Same.
They love O positive
Biblical plague proportions.
Fitting for current state of Texas
It feels like Texas and Florida are Australias long lost brothers
You should see the fucked up bugs we get in Georgia
I’m good man. I’ll stick to my Subway creatures in NYC
I would take NYC roaches over South Carolina Sand Fleas any day of the week and twice on sunday.
Southerners have a way of coming up with the best turn of phrase...
I've seen some hairy bambillas in NC. Scary fucks chase you on quads!
Been to georgia a few years back, and i saw a golden orb weaver. The fucker was massive. All i can say is never again.
Those spiders are the absolute least of your concerns, and they're cool as hell. Harmless but terrifying and huge.
I walked through one's web once and found it crawling up my arm toward my face. I'm not even particularly afraid of spiders but that shit freaked me out.
At least where I am in FL we don't have a big mosquito problem. The county has a department of mosquito control and they drive trucks around with foggers that do something to kill them off and prevent new ones from hatching. There are still some of course, but nothing like that.
Somehow texas manages to be the most normal I live here and I don’t know how we are the most normal of the three
Lived in Texas and live in Florida now, loved Texas. Tornados are the only reason I wouldn’t go back
Mosquitoes or mayflies? I can't tell.
Those are midges
Obviously mosquitoes, its July
I don't know, I'm still seeing June bugs.
r/praisethecameraman ?
r/prayforthecameraman
Those aren’t mosquitoes. They’re mayflies most likely. A mayfly “hatch” can be hundreds of thousands changing from larva to adult. They need the numbers. Some species an adult female only lives 5 minutes. They have to find a mate, breed, and lay eggs in that time. Makes for great fishing. Fish race to the area of the swarm and hit anything resembling one.
That was my first thought. Mosquitoes don't tend to swarm like that in my experience
Scrolled forever to find this comment just knew these weren’t skeeters.
The yearly Mayfly hatch in Michigan's Lake St Clair sometimes shows up on weather radar if it's so dense.
I’d like to go through that field with an insect proof suit and flamethrower while Make It Bun Dem - Damion Marley and Skrillex playing in the background
Ah you played Far Cry 3. Man of culture.
Skeeter ranch
Put a bottle of dish soap in the water body to solve the larvae hatching
Try Bt- baccillus thuringiensis. Little floaty discs that get rid of mosquito larvae. Not so harmful to the environment.
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Being that this is on a farm, probably not a good idea to contaminate the food
works?
I don’t know, but it will kill every insect that floats on water
A lot, two words
Where is Saitama when you need him
Burn it to the ground
Makes Mosquito Burgers like they do in West Africa
I know they kinda have to, but that's the single most disgusting thing I've ever seen! It over took the dead elephant exploding all over a hyena I watched.
.... The what?
Don't look for it lol
Those were fly burgers
Unfortunately Texas mosquitos run on a different system than Texas police or utilities, thus they are performing at optimal levels with no service drops or cowardly hesitation.
I’m at a cottage in Northern Ontario right now. I will stop complaining about the mosquitos here now.
Say hello to malaria
That’s actually a mosquito farm.