What's your mosquito situation? (And talk about other bugs)

[tommy]

We had a few late frosts this spring, so there weren't a lot of mosquitos for most of the summer, but in the last few weeks they've returned with a vengeance.

[tommy]

I also had a drain fly problem in my basement this summer, but that is under control now thanks to a few bottles of bleach.

[doug rr]

had a bad fruit fly problem in the summer..mostly around the sink

[tree_]

I have never seen a bug in my entire life. Pretty sure they don't actually exist. They look like something out of a Star War.

[Chris_H_2]

had a bad fruit fly problem in the summer..mostly around the sink

pro (and my) tip: pour a cup of baking soda and a cup of vinegar down the drain, cover it with a rag (so it doesn't smell the whole kitchen up), and let it sit for 15 minutes. then pour boiling water down the drain. do this once a month. it eliminates odors and, most importantly, kills fruit fly eggs (they like to lay their eggs in the drain). once a week, pour boiling water down the drain to kill any eggs between applications.

[tree_]

murderer

[Chris_H_2]

murderer

Spoiler: show

[tree_]

did you hack my phone?

[doug rr]

are you wearing jorts?

[tree_]

No! Don't you have eyes?

[tommy]

had a bad fruit fly problem in the summer..mostly around the sink

pro (and my) tip: pour a cup of baking soda and a cup of vinegar down the drain, cover it with a rag (so it doesn't smell the whole kitchen up), and let it sit for 15 minutes. then pour boiling water down the drain. do this once a month. it eliminates odors and, most importantly, kills fruit fly eggs (they like to lay their eggs in the drain). once a week, pour boiling water down the drain to kill any eggs between applications.

I tried this and it worked ok. The bleach worked better

[BurtReynolds]

Don't see them much anymore.

[doug rr]

had a bad fruit fly problem in the summer..mostly around the sink

pro (and my) tip: pour a cup of baking soda and a cup of vinegar down the drain, cover it with a rag (so it doesn't smell the whole kitchen up), and let it sit for 15 minutes. then pour boiling water down the drain. do this once a month. it eliminates odors and, most importantly, kills fruit fly eggs (they like to lay their eggs in the drain). once a week, pour boiling water down the drain to kill any eggs between applications.

we tried a few variations of this..it was ok at best..had a guy come to spray and he mentioned our neighbors fruit trees, pears, plums, etc laying on the ground is a problem too..we also always keep the back door open for the dog...now that its colder it has seemed to stop

[tragabigzanda]

There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.

There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.

There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.

There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.

O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.

[tommy]

No! Don't you have eyes?

After opening that picture I wish I didn't

[E.H. Ruddock]

murderer

Spoiler: show

Is that Human Bass' leg?

[spike]

We get our lakehouse yard treated for mozzies on the reg, but once it gets dark, it doesn’t matter. The yard having water on three sides, there’s not much you can do.

We’re also in the midst of our annual house fly problem. They’re a certain kind that are dumb and slow af, so I just swat like forty of them when we arrive and that takes care of it.

[E.H. Ruddock]

mozzies on the reg

[spike]

G’day!

[doug rr]

I bought one of these a few years ago..works like a charm...its a good workout and you can lose weight while doing it