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re: Mosquitos in BR are at insane levels

Posted on 2/19/24 at 4:47 pm to
Posted by PhiTiger1764
Lurker since Aug 2003
Member since Oct 2009
13936 posts
Posted on 2/19/24 at 4:47 pm to
Definitely mosquitoes. I can’t walk outside without letting 5 fly in. Most I’ve ever seen.
Posted by brickyard
Member since Jan 2007
539 posts
Posted on 2/19/24 at 4:56 pm to
I'm seeing a ton of both mosquitos and crane flies.
Definitely a different type of mosquito than we normally see in south Louisiana. They're everywhere as someone mentioned, on porches, siding, bushes, etc, but don't seem as aggressive? Doesn't seem like I've been bitten like normal mosquitos, but I haven't been outside a whole lot.
Posted by KingofthePoint
Member since Feb 2009
10150 posts
Posted on 2/19/24 at 5:03 pm to
quote:

I was about to say it's most likely the mosquito hawk (aka crane fly) that everyone is seeing.

In my area, mosquito hawks are another name for dragonflies
Posted by Zander Kelley
Member since Jan 2024
346 posts
Posted on 2/19/24 at 5:05 pm to
STFU
Posted by udtiger
Over your left shoulder
Member since Nov 2006
99304 posts
Posted on 2/19/24 at 5:05 pm to
My back porch was fricking covered with them last week.
Posted by Zander Kelley
Member since Jan 2024
346 posts
Posted on 2/19/24 at 5:11 pm to
I think I know the difference. I literally killed over 100 mosquitos this past weekend.
Posted by Sao
East Texas Piney Woods
Member since Jun 2009
65974 posts
Posted on 2/19/24 at 5:11 pm to
quote:

You're obviously from Texas. We call them "Daddy long legs" on the east side if the state line. Yes, they're out in force.


No way people in Louisiana call mosquito hawks daddy long legs. WTF do y'all call daddy long legs?
Posted by Zander Kelley
Member since Jan 2024
346 posts
Posted on 2/19/24 at 5:13 pm to
Or did Bill Gates release some in our area?
Posted by JasonDBlaha
Woodlands, Texas
Member since Apr 2023
2434 posts
Posted on 2/19/24 at 5:15 pm to
Come on, man. True Louisiana baws can handle mosquitoes like they’re nothing. Hell, here in SE Texas we got them pretty bad too.
Posted by Zander Kelley
Member since Jan 2024
346 posts
Posted on 2/19/24 at 5:16 pm to
I wish I could smack you with my fly swatter. We know the difference between the two.
Posted by GreenRockTiger
vortex to the whirlpool of despair
Member since Jun 2020
42554 posts
Posted on 2/19/24 at 5:17 pm to
quote:

I don't think there are actually many regular biting mosquitos flying around at all.
there are actually a lot
Posted by Bayou_Tiger_225
Third Earth
Member since Mar 2016
10603 posts
Posted on 2/19/24 at 5:22 pm to
Do bug zappers really work?
Posted by LegendInMyMind
Member since Apr 2019
54988 posts
Posted on 2/19/24 at 5:36 pm to
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I wish I could smack you with my fly swatter. We know the difference between the two.


More people than you realize do not.
Posted by Locoguan0
Baton Rouge, LA
Member since Nov 2017
4351 posts
Posted on 2/19/24 at 5:46 pm to
EPA regs and a shite city-parish government have reduced abatement.
Posted by Suntiger
BR or somewhere else
Member since Feb 2007
33003 posts
Posted on 2/19/24 at 5:50 pm to
I’ve lived in Louisiana all my life. It’s mosquitos and mosquito hawks both. And I’ve never seen so many this this early in the year. It is crazy.
Posted by LegendInMyMind
Member since Apr 2019
54988 posts
Posted on 2/19/24 at 5:53 pm to
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EPA regs....have reduced abatement.


How so, specifically?
Posted by Oilfieldbiology
Member since Nov 2016
37596 posts
Posted on 2/19/24 at 5:55 pm to
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Wasn’t it in the 30s this morning?


It was, and they are nuts
Posted by Rocklicker
Member since Aug 2016
140 posts
Posted on 2/19/24 at 6:14 pm to
Same in Prairieville yesterday. They were all in the yard. Every step would flush hundreds up. There had to be 10,000 in my yard yesterday. I napalmed them with bifen in sprayer for whole yard along with fences and walls.
Today I had dead mosquitoes everywhere.
Posted by turnpiketiger
Southeast Texas
Member since May 2020
9580 posts
Posted on 2/19/24 at 7:08 pm to
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You don’t say? South LA is basically a huge swamp. Of course there’s going to be a shite ton of mosquitoes. You just gotta learn to live with it.


BR’s climate and terrain is identical to the woodlands. You act like it’s in an entire separate region with a different climate.
Posted by labguy
Baton Rouge
Member since Apr 2020
249 posts
Posted on 2/19/24 at 7:22 pm to
I have never seen this many mosquitoes and I’ve been living in BR over 60 years. Thousands on my back patio and carport. They were a little better yesterday but terrible again today. I walked in the back yard and swarms of them flew up. My vehicles outside are covered with them. And it’s definitely mosquitoes. Called city parish and they are coming Wednesday to spray my yard.
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