I kill 2-4. Fuckers get in whenever I open the windows at night
All of them. They absorb my depression and then kill themselves
A female adult mosquito can live for a month or two, laying eggs every two to three days, between 100 and 300 eggs each time.
Also, they travel several kilometres for food - blood, so, I’m going out on a limb, but you might need to scale up your efforts if you’re attempting to reduce the local population.
There weren’t so many around when I lived just a couple kilometers away and I dont live near water neither.
Also 100 - 300 sounds terrifying, glad their numbers are more or less stable through summer
Where do you live? Is it a land that doesn’t do screens? In Florida, of you don’t have screens the wildlife just comes inside.
I kill 2 or 3 in the time that I’m outside. It would be more but the sun is trying to kill us right now so I stay inside with air conditioning.
the wildlife
Now Im imagining owls, bats, bears, alligators all getting stuck on a screen
Oh god, the pictures in my head, LMAO.
“Ma! There’s a danged ole black bear stuck to the back porch screen!”
“Well poke it loose with the broom!”
You sleep late thinking the sun is low. Nope. Gator spread eagle on your bedroom window.
“God. Damnit. Not again”
Wife rolls over in bed,
“Stop bitching and go get the gator spray.”
“We used it all!”
“Then why didn’t you buy more?!”
“I put it on our shopping list. You forgot last time you went to Winn Dixie.”
Screens are rare and the house is rented. Mosquitos and the occasional moth are the only wildlife that come in through the window
Unpopular opinion time, but hardly any. They leave me alone for the most part since I got old and all the bugs are gone and I just live and let live unless they’re also around a less… oddly benevolent and susceptible… family member.
As counterpoint, I grew up as an outdoorsy person in northern BC, I know skeeters and have probably killed more than many downvoters could imagine except Manitobans.
Always struck me as odd how thick they get in cold climates. I’ve seen videos from Siberia where the guys in the field are wearing the mosquito version of bee keeper suits.
Meanwhile, in Florida, I have a couple of swampy acres out in the boonies and mosquitos aren’t bad at all. They’re worse in my front yard than out there.
Mosquitoes went down when daddy long legs set up shop all over my patio. We have a symbiotic relationship now.
Not too keen on the black widows, though…
- No standing water around our place so nowhere for them to breed.
Mosquitos can breed in a bottle cap full of rain water, there’s almost certainly enough somewhere
You should install some screens.
I work in pest control so thousands.
If you want to use what pros use look into the in2care mosquito bucket system. It works fantastic and it’s what most companies use.
as many as I can.
Depending on the day, anywhere from 1 or 2 to several dozen
I have a net on my bedroom window, so barely any.
0 as I live in arid climate. But I crush lots of ants in my kitchen daily.
I don’t remember the last time I killed one. They’re not as attracted to me and I usually wear long sleeves and sometimes a deterrent spray anyways. So I guess none.
Though I might kill out of reflex, I also happen to agree with the Dalai Lama on the action if there is no threat, plus they’re pollinators.
None. The bastards have been known to eat me alive, but it just seems like a fools errand, as if I’m going to make a dent in their population.
Besides I’m morally opposed to killing living beings, so the act seems rather cruel unless I’m in mortal danger.
Hardly any, but I just use central AC so my windows are pretty much never opened
