Giant Bugs in FL?

[Just Duke]

http://www.clickorlando.com/news/UF-Researcher-Mega-mosquitoes-set-to-invade-Central-Fla/-/1637132/19196520/-/y0c9ydz/-/index.html

[Artful]

beware of the Ants
http://www.techcn.com.cn/uploads/201009/1284722748MzEnsqUU.jpg

[shredder]

Zoiks! I swear we have some of those in Northern Canada that only come out when I go out to fish!

[oldarkie]

we have gallinippers in Missouri but they don't bite.

[Bad Water Bill]

And mosquito eggs can lay dormant for up to 15 years and still hatch out to bite you.:evil:

[cbrick]

Perhaps the folks in FL will be kind enough to keep them to themselves and NOT share them with rest of us. Full auto Uzi for mosquito control, who da thought. :mrgreen:

Rick

[bbs70]

And mosquito eggs can lay dormant for up to 15 years and still hatch out to bite you.:evil:

You mean like a woman's memory of when you screw up. [smilie=l:

[Beekeeper]

I'm told they imigrated from Texas!
Everyone knows everything is bigger in Texas.
Just ask any Texan if you don't beleive.


beekeeper

[David2011]

I saw something like that at my house in East Texas about 4 years ago. Biggest mosquito I had ever seen.

David

[Charley]

Psorophora ciliate have been there all along, they are friggin NATIVE to the US east of the Rockies. Idiot reporters and idiot editor trying to make a news story. Floodwater mosquito, more common during times of standing floodwaters and runoff. Numbers normally are not large, Aedes are much more common, and are known disease vectors. I'd worry more about the US's current administration, not some stupid mosquito species that lived there before the US was even a dream.
I'm an entomologist, BTW, if it makes a difference...

[snuffy]

Last comment on that link was 9 months ago, so this is hardly news. SOOOOOOooo did they rampage Florida last summer??¿¿

[oscarflytyer]

1984-1985ish. Deer hunting in Eastern NC. I saw mosquitoes that size while hunting. They were very aggressive. 100% DEET barely kept them at bay. We were hunting around a lot of lowland areas. A hurricane had blown the water out of normal areas and into low lying areas and provided a great breeding ground for these things. Sounds like the same phenomenon.

[w5pv]

We have them or an variety of them here in East TX they don't bite but we have plenty other types that start sucking blood before their wings stop flapping.

[w5pv]

We have them or an variety of them here in East TX they don't bite but we have plenty other types that start sucking blood before their wings stop flapping.

[Bad Water Bill]

We have them or an variety of them here in East TX they don't bite but we have plenty other types that start sucking blood before their wings stop flapping.

Those are not mosquitoes, they are escaped Chiraq politicians.:smile:

[Dale in Louisiana]

I hate to yawn here, folks, but I was raised on the edge of the coastal marshes of southwest Louisiana. We know mosquitoes. Infestations in some years have been so bad as to kill cattle, driving them mad, running them around the marshes until the cattle died of stress and exhaustion and exsanguination.

In recent years taxpayer-funded mosquito control keeps them to nuisance levels in residential areas, but we still see some amazing infestations after heavy rains and hurricanes.

In recent decades we've been invaded by an alien variety, the so-called 'Asian tiger', a visibly smaller species with a particularly irritating, itchy bite. They came in on one ship or another and have made a home here.

dale in Louisiana

[oldarkie]

I worked repairing power lines in and around lake Charles la after rita,was told not to kill them they were the state bird.

[garym1a2]

I never saw them.


Last comment on that link was 9 months ago, so this is hardly news. SOOOOOOooo did they rampage Florida last summer??¿¿

[TheCelt]

You mean like a woman's memory of when you screw up. [smilie=l:

ROTFLMAO, that's got to be funniest thing (and true) I've seen in awhile!!!

[AlaskanGuy]

Looks like a run of the mill alaskan type... Glad to share.... He he

[TheCelt]

Looks like a run of the mill alaskan type... Glad to share.... He he

I've heard those Alaskan Skeeters will bleed ya out pretty quick.

[popper]

From the title I thought he was talking about palmetto bugs.

[Dale in Louisiana]

I worked repairing power lines in and around lake Charles la after rita,was told not to kill them they were the state bird.

somebody was pulling your leg. We'll happily let you take home all you can carry.

Where did you work after Rita? I think Duke Power out of NC put the lights on at my office.

Missouri National Guard ran the food and water distribution site in town.

dale in Louisiana

[garym1a2]

I think someone made up this story is just sore at our weather.
Sunny and 72 today.

[D Crockett]

I have seen those kind for years here in Florida nothing new just a bigger bighting bug D Crockett

[oldarkie]

Dale I worked in and around lake Charles for entergy,I met a bunch of nice fellas there.

[oldarkie]

Dale sorry I missed part of your question ,i worked for independence power and light was my last storm break then I retired.