"Enough already!!! 20 inches and it is still coming down WTF. Hey Maddawgs how are you making out?
the only good thing is no work today. More time to run my latest sugar wash.

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this is what they make brewbelts for."

Its been over 30c here every day for weeks, a toasty 36c today at work and another 4 to 5 days of over 35c till we get a cool change. Ill swap you for snow any day lol

Yah I'm with you MD. We ended up w/ around 24 inches again. just like last month.

Hey Googe that is a trade I would make 10 out of 12 months of the year. It's different for Aussies. You go north to warm up and we have to go south.

We get them down heah in Texas.. Some use them for skeet shooting, but most just let 'em eat the smaller more annoying mosquitios..

Blue marlins are the best for controlling both species, but they's harder than hell to get to stick around down here... Always coming and a going, those birds...

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Huge Florida Mosquitoes Larger Than A Quarter Set To Invade This Summer
Posted: March 9, 2013
Huge Florida Mosquitoes

Huge Florida mosquitoes 20 times larger than the average insect are on their way for this summer, experts are warning.

Environmental officials in the Sunshine State say that Tropical Storm Debbie awakened the dormant eggs of a particularly huge species of mosquito, the galinipper. The female galinipper grows to considerable size and feeds at night.

The huge Florida mosquitoes are also a voracious feeder. They can reportedly penetrate through layers of clothing with an especially painful stinger.

The galinipper bite "feels like you're being stabbed," Anthony Pelaez of the Museum of Science and Industry in Tampa told MyFoxOrlando. Palaez said he's suffered man galinipper bites while working in the Amazon.

"It's about the size of a quarter. , It's about 20 times bigger than the sort of typical, Florida mosquito that you find," Pelaez said. "And it's mean, and it goes after people, and it bites, and it hurts."

The huge Florida mosquitoes known as the galinipper actually made a debut last year, but this summer is expected to be even worse.

The galinipper is a floodwater mosquito, with females laying eggs near sources of water created by rainwater overflows. The eggs remain dormant for years, and are hatched when high water reaches them &#8212; like the water caused by Tropical Storm Debbie.

The also have a reputation for being particularly aggressive, with the female consuming blood while the male feeds on nectar.

Pelaez suggested that people wear lots of mosquito repellant, but for many Floridians it may not be necessary. Pinellas County extension agent Jane Morse noted that the galinipper prefers to live in grassy areas, so people who live in urban areas are safe from its painful bite

There could be a benefit to the huge Florida mosquitoes, though. The galinipper feeds on the larvae of the smaller species of mosquitoes, reducing that population. The galinipper also does not carry human diseases like the West Nile virus.
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"I know you guys say the cold sucks but lets think about the 9 months of summer in so Fl. OMG....100 degrees every day and 85% humidity --- and there are times when the skeeters WILL tote yur azz off. I think I got cha beat when it comes to misery. For ya'll 3 months of cold and another of cool then heaven (so I'm told-cause everything is better up north) I guess we all got our miseries but damn its fun to still when its cool. Anyway I'm sure to me yours is better and to ya'll mine is better thats just human nature I guess.
The quote from post #10 ---got deet, thats always on our minds."

Hi heeler,
I hear you about the bugs, I think thats why Floridians invented those nice lanias over thier patio pool areas. If I had my choice of nice warm gulf ocean water and never warm north east ocean water I'll take the warm water every time. Our skeeters here carry west nile and eee and the dead and disabled numbers increase every year. Forthe last few years they have driven and flown around spraying deet. Our skeeters are starting to like it. Best option is to snowbird I guess to beat the worst part of the heat.
Maddawgs