Went camping last weekend, can't help but wonder...
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lozina
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Where the heck are you camping? Jungles of panama?
Flies and mosquitos here in the northeast are easy to deal with. The trouble is black flies during their peak season in late spring. I need to cover all exposed skin and even wear face netting during that time. But even then just staying by a fire or having a windy day keeps them at bay
Flies and mosquitos here in the northeast are easy to deal with. The trouble is black flies during their peak season in late spring. I need to cover all exposed skin and even wear face netting during that time. But even then just staying by a fire or having a windy day keeps them at bay
norseamd
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you clearly have never been to the great wilderness of minnesota
that does not even count as the boundry waters
Although disease ridden bugs are known to cause a few deaths. I think we'd have a few more urgent things to worry about.
Plus I'm not a huge vagina. Never used bug spray a day in my life.
Plus I'm not a huge vagina. Never used bug spray a day in my life.
lozina
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You mean to tell me insects can survive in Minnesota?
Its not just polar bears and penguins there??
JamesV
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Deer flies are the worst, and there isn't a spray available that keeps them away. If you don't know what they are, they look like a big fly with 'V' wings, and they like orbiting your head, then darting in and biting you. They love trying to bite me around my eyes, and the bites are like large mosquito bites and take a week to heal.
But if it was end of the world, I'd just smear mud on my exposed skin. You'd be amazed how well that works.
But if it was end of the world, I'd just smear mud on my exposed skin. You'd be amazed how well that works.
MagnusTheBrewer
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If you're in the wilderness for more than a few days, you don't bother with bug spray. After you get over being bitten for a few days, they leave you alone.
norseamd
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lozina
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Geez. Sounds like a great location for a penal colony. You live there voluntarily??
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South/Cental TX camp grounds have plenty of bugs. The place with most bugs ever I remember was Yosemite
highland145
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I thought the global cooling would fix this. That's what Carney said...effed up the gdp. Should work on bugs. Right?
Jeff7
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Or they'll trigger a reaction or carry a disease, and it'll turn into a large, feverish rash.
Them and horse flies.
It's not just a "bite" either - they slice into you and lick up the blood. Little assholes.
Fun to see: Skin-So-Soft skin oil was once recommended to me as a bug repellent. It didn't seem to help in that respect, but I did somehow find an interesting effect: Get a large black pan, or a nice big impression in black asphalt, and put some of the oil into it so as to create a film.
I don't know the reason, but the deer flies like to fly into puddles like that. But then the oil coats their wings, and soon you'll have hundreds of drowned flies. It needs to be cleaned out periodically because the layer of dead flies will allow any newcomers to survive.
Even just walking out to get the mail in summer sucked back at my parents' house. No more than 10 feet from the front door and a fly would start orbiting your head, prepping to land and slice right in.
twinrider1
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They only have two seasons in Minnesota....Frozen Tundra and Mosquito.
My worst mosquito experience was trying to camp (KOA) in the south, in summer, next to the Mississippi River. Van converted to a camper, but didn't think to put add screens for the windows. By 3 am we just decided to leave and get back on the road. Thank God for Campo Phenique.
My worst mosquito experience was trying to camp (KOA) in the south, in summer, next to the Mississippi River. Van converted to a camper, but didn't think to put add screens for the windows. By 3 am we just decided to leave and get back on the road. Thank God for Campo Phenique.
OutHouse
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North Dakota is nasty with mosquitoes. they got so bad when i lived in Grand Forks that the town used crop dusters along with the fog trucks to kill them.
Just the large insects. Freeze doesn't seem to kill the Mosquitos.
I'm guessing true survival would require mosquito nets at night.
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MagnusTheBrewer
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Red Squirrel
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Haha it's funny, they never have mosquitoes in TV shows or movies.
Imagine Walking Dead IRL. There would be tons of flies and tons of mosquitoes everywhere. The zombies would be mobile breeding grounds for these things.
Imagine Walking Dead IRL. There would be tons of flies and tons of mosquitoes everywhere. The zombies would be mobile breeding grounds for these things.
Red Squirrel
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Kaido
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There was some TV show like this, Revolution or something, where all of the power worldwide goes out permanently. Everything reverted back to the old days where everything was manufactured manually. One of the characters was hiking along and said something like "I was worth $80 million at Google; I'd trade it all for a roll of Charmin right now"
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