Mosquitos!! - Page 2

**Rich Z** · 05-20-2008, 01:45 PM

Well, I guess everyone should have a hobby. Mine, this spring, was collecting dead mosquitos.

This is a 5 gallon bucket about three quarters filled with skeeters collected the last couple of months around here.

85vette · 05-20-2008, 02:21 PM

Rich, I know you've addressed this before, but where did you get those and how much did they cost? Ray had one over in Port St. Joe, they're real bad over there this year too.

**Rich Z** · 05-20-2008, 03:50 PM

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Originally Posted by 85vette

Rich, I know you've addressed this before, but where did you get those and how much did they cost? Ray had one over in Port St. Joe, they're real bad over there this year too.

Here's where I got my last two Mosquito Magnets -> http://www.acehardwareoutlet.com/(fw...px?SKU=7129596

Price is $600 each with free shipping. That was the best deal I could find online.

They do make a smaller model for $270 -> http://www.acehardwareoutlet.com/(fw...px?SKU=7129554, but I've never tried that one.

I normally try to buy my stuff online if I can find free shipping and avoid paying sales tax.

03blackburb · 05-23-2008, 03:31 AM

Before reading this thread, I had forgotten how dense the skeeter populations are in Florida. Being out here in central texas, I truely appreciate the bats, NO skeeters and almost no night time bugs.

Ms. AntiVenom · 05-23-2008, 02:58 PM

Totally get one of these this year, the girls are almost scared they got bit so many times in 10 mins out in the daylight

MRS. XTREME · 05-23-2008, 03:15 PM

I use to live in Crawfordville and you are right these things are RIDICULOUS!!!!
Now I live WAYYYYY over in Killearn Lakes, so even though I do still get mosquitos here, I try not to complain because they are NOTHING compared to what I had to deal with in Crawfordville.

I have never seen so many mosquitos like in your pics!!!
OMG!!!!

**Rich Z** · 05-23-2008, 04:21 PM

This is not normal for this area. At least not in the 16 years we have lived here. If it were, I would be OUT OF HERE, in a heart beat. When we first bought the property here, we used to come down on vacation and just camp out on out property. We would bring a shower bag that held water and placing it in direct sunlight would heat up the water nicely. So at the end of the day we would hang the bag from a tree branch and take showers outside.

We NEVER had any problems with mosquitoes at all. Had the mosquitoes been then as they are this year, I'll tell you, we would never have moved down here. I would have just figured it was senseless moving to an area where we could not go outside at all because of all those blood suckers waiting for us.....