Guess what time of year it is?

[gt40]

Just started, eeeeya

[Tjalfe]

I got several bites on the victoria day long weekend already

[bsdgeek]

[Brian Ellis]

Yeah, we have a pesky species of no-see'ums, just under 1 mm long and flesh-coloured. I've watched them tip up their arses and corkscrew a sharp proboscis into the skin. They cannot go deep enough to suck blood, but they inject a toxin that irritates like hell for 20 or 30 minutes, provided you don't scratch the bite and longer if you do. The crafty buggers fly off before the irritation stats, though. For some reason, they do not attack the head, face or neck, just the arms and legs.

Another one looks exactly like a small housefly, but is a bloodsucker and leaves a painful 1 hour toxin. A real pest when gardening. DMP repels it, fortunately.

We get practically no mosquitos, though, perhaps 1 o r 2 per year.

[GuchiGuh]

BayGon
AeroGuard

[az]

What?

AZ

[gt40]

And of course we've got the west nile factor this year.

hmmm, may have to limit my stays at the cottage.

[Patrick]

The odds of catching it are low, but...

The West Nile virus has been working it's way across Canada over the last year or two (or three) and it's expected to reach the west coast this year. Damn.

[The Rock]

I HATE bugs!! Not because they bite me, but because they dirty up my car and I can't find ANY good windshield washer fluid thats REALLy good for getting bug guts off.

[Wombat]

Originally posted by The Rock
I HATE bugs!! Not because they bite me, but because they dirty up my car and I can't find ANY good windshield washer fluid thats REALLy good for getting bug guts off.

Don't use the Prestone Bugwash. It left watermarks on my windshield and paint job, that I can't get off even a year later. And it's nearly impossible to find Prestone company contact information.

A friend of mine said that treating your windshield with Rain-X makes the bugs much easier to deal with. Also, when I am cleaning the bugs at home, I use a citrus cleaner to help break things down first.

And out here Miller moths (actually army cutworms) leave monsterous splotches on your windshield at 90mph.

[KvHagedorn]

Originally posted by Wombat
Don't use the Prestone Bugwash. It left watermarks on my windshield and paint job, that I can't get off even a year later. And it's nearly impossible to find Prestone company contact information.

A friend of mine said that treating your windshield with Rain-X makes the bugs much easier to deal with. Also, when I am cleaning the bugs at home, I use a citrus cleaner to help break things down first.

And out here Miller moths (actually army cutworms) leave monsterous splotches on your windshield at 90mph.

90mph, eh?

[Wombat]

Well, yeah, on the low side. The highways here are like a driver's paradise. 90mph is my low side for the drive home from dancing.

[Wombat]

Hmmm, KvH has new "bug squashers."

[The PIT]

Don't get bugs on the windscreen anymore or very few. The farmers must have wiped them nearly all out.

[Brian Ellis]

It's because the roads in the UK have become one vast parking lot: no one can go fast enough to squash a bug :-(

(Remember the AC Cobra at 186 mph on the M1? The first time I clocked the ton was on the Preston bypass which was part of the M6, shortly after it opened as the first motorway in the UK, in a Hillman Minx with a Sunbeam Alpine engine, I'd guess about 44 years ago; that car was a real bug-killer!!!)