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One memorable morning in Louisiana near Houma camping out in a tent near the showers sort of campground/trailor park setting. This was in the 70's , Walt and I decided to go there to do some freelance carpenter work after a hurricane. The place was crawling with up to 6 foot long alligators, snakes of many kinds, some big ones too. They actually sprayed for the dam skeeters right in the "camp" ground. There were also feral hogs everywhere but we couldn't hunt them on the property, anywhere else go for it. So I parked at the back of the place and went into the soggy toward the creek. Saw a hog and it was getting to soggy to walk in So I decided to string some Vietnam era mosquito netting. I was sprayed down with off. About 30 minutes after dark the skeeters had covered the netting so thick you couldn't see through the netting with a light well enough to shoot anything. They were humming, thousands of them at the same time, loud. Grabbed my pistol took off out from the netting leaving it to them. I could run like the wind back then and still got more then 30 bites, stinging SOB's. Those were hungry bugs.

Sounds normal to me. Most everyone in Floriduh is a blood donor.

Middle Georgia swampy area near Lake Eufaula on the Chattahoochie river. So humid you could see the moisture in the air, and hear the mosquitos humming. Bug spray wasn't cutting it, even the Thermacell would falter if a slight breeze came up. Been there................

Had a camp in Dulac La. In the marsh.

worst experience for me was in the U.P., renting a lake house. On the water with a breeze no mosquitoes. Walking down the gravel road away from the water with trees and fields, it was mosquito apocalypse . It was crazy.

Dismal Swamp in Gates Co., NC.

Primeval.

Lots of bugs here. And the biting flies of different brands can be worse than skeeters.

Fishing for grayling out off of the Denali highway in the early summer can be rough. One time I was out there and it looked like a ground fog had settled in but it was mosquitoes. The sound was as memorable as the sight.

Cape Canaveral and the Kennedy Space Center abut what had always been named Mosquito Lagoon. Rightly so.

Back before the Goobermint bought the Cape, settlers there reported mosquitoes so thick they literally could kill a horse from blood loss. When I worked there, I hunted ducks in the public National Seashore, and mosquitoes would cover me so thick they resembled fur. I could wipe them off by the handful and they were so aggressive that no repellent would even faze them.

Interesting Factoid: People with Type O blood are more than three times as attractive to mosquitoes as other blood types. Science isn't sure why, but I can attest to being the #1 skeeter target when with friends. I can be surrounded by them while others go unmolested. I'm O-Negative.

Maine from Mid may to early September.
Anywhere in the woods or around any water.

Add in Black flies, deer flies, moose flies, horse flies.
Grand Mal flying insect schit....


Jungles in Panama aint schit compared to Maine.
4 or 5 skeeters around you.
That aint schit compared to literally 100,s around a peat bog or other water source fishing in Maine.


Only place that comes close I have been is the middle east with common house flies swarming your azz in certain places over their.

Bens 100% deet
Head net.
Light gloves
Sleeves and pants duct taped.
Smoking a cigg, or cigar thru your headnet.

Trout fishing outfit SOP at times in late spring/ summer in the sunkhaze water shed areas growing up in the 70,s and early 80,s.


Another reason I didnt retire up their back in 2008.
Among many others.......

Urban legend is the University of Maine at Orono.
Brought in Black Flies from Canada to play around with in their entomology labs and they got loose.
Old Timers used to say the black flies were hardly ever seen when they was growing up in the 40,s thru the 60,s.


I think it had more to do with the banning of DDT than the UMO urban legend myself....

Those bastids would sneak up on you and do frontal attacks!

I gotta say I know 3 people like that, if they don't snivel too much about it I consider them valuable!

I live in WI and hunt MI - we have mosquitos that can suck a cow dry of blood in 30 seconds.

Locally - we'll get big balls of bugs so thick that you have to down shift to drive through them.

Angelina river bottom East Texas. Thought they were going to carry me off. Went back to the truck before I got to the river. BIL showed up and got in the truck. What's a matter ; no ducks, says I. F-em he says. Sometime around 1995 or so.

Alaska in August...

On Okinawa I remember them spraying DDT from the roads on and off base. They made a good cloud, it did keep the skeeters down. Maine never was a destination I had to get to.

Rice fields around Hockley Texas, beach at Freeport, hate the bastards. We have some at my house at times. Mostly little ankle biters.

mosquitos are just a way of life here

Rice fields around Hockley Texas, beach at Freeport, hate the bastards. We have some at my house at times. Mostly little ankle biters.