Posted on 05/22/2015 3:58:44 PM PDT by nickcarraway
They’re getting bad in Houston. It’s been raining for weeks with not much relief in sight.
Maybe it’s just me, but reading these responses is making me itch all over....
"Ceterum censeo 0bama esse delendam."
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
The thickest swarm of mosquitoes that I ever saw was on the Texas coast near Angleton. I and a buddy drove a pickup truck to a remote pasture to check on some stray cattle. As we drove through the grass, we stirred up a cloud of pestilence, the likes of which has not been seen since the ten plagues of Egypt. We figured those were newly hatched critters looking for their first meal; they covered the truck entirely, trying to bite it. They seeped in through the smallest cracks of that old truck. I recalled Alfred Hitchcocks movie “The Birds” as we got the hell outta there!
I’m told bats eat mosquitoes. Then what we need is more bats...
Just another reason not to come to Texas, Satan got Hell, we got bats and mosquitoes and killer bees and fire ants. And they’re all bigger in Texas. Have a nice day.
The winters do, in winter. Nobody gets bit by mosquitoes then. You need an early spring with warm temps to hatch them out, then a cold snap for a week and you won't see the skeets again til July.
I've heard of cows dying due to loss of blood to Texas mosquitoes.
BTW, I think with "yellow flies" or "dog flies" you're referring to the "deer fly" (which has a kind of orangey color).
They circle their victim repeatedly, frequently stopping to land on your head. Some professor made a sash for around your hat composed of blue flypaper. 'Said to be very effective.
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