Flying Insects, Where are They?

Patricia said:
I'm seeing mosquitoes here.
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If you see a mosquito, it won't bite.
Why? If you can see the mosquito, it's a male, which is much larger than the female mosquito. Only the female mosquito lives on blood & female mosquitoes are tiny & hard to see. Male mosquitoes live on nectar & plant juices & don't bite.

Male mosquitoes feed only on plant juices, such as nectar, to get the sugar they need for energy and survival. As males do not bite, they cannot transmit diseases.
 

It may be a town/city thing then, no flies, I haven't seen
bees either, nor are there any insect eating birds around
here, pigeons are everywhere.

A lot of you live in the countryside I believe, I live in the city
and there is a busy road at the end of my garden.

Mike.
 
Every time I go outside I get bitten....I don't see the culprits, just see the results...tiny itchy spots (and I know they are not flea bites).
 

There’s no shortage of mosquitoes here; they bite me behind the ears! Anyone remember that old novelty song, “The Mosquitoes Parade?” I also fight tiny, invasive ants.

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On the plus side, I have fireflies already at night! They seem a bit early this year…
 
Plenty Butterflies in my garden, and they're big too.. this is a Monarch

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Adding to the population...


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win231 said:
If you see a mosquito, it won't bite.
Why? If you can see the mosquito, it's a male, which is much larger than the female mosquito. Only the female mosquito lives on blood & female mosquitoes are tiny & hard to see. Male mosquitoes live on nectar & plant juices & don't bite.

Male mosquitoes feed only on plant juices, such as nectar, to get the sugar they need for energy and survival. As males do not bite, they cannot transmit diseases.
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The ones I can see sure do bite. Those really large mosquito-looking ones aren't mosquitos. They are mosquito hawks, which prey on mosquitos.
 
Well, I do my best not to let any get inside my apartment so I keep my windows closed once the summer is here. I have had a couple of flies get in but I think they come in through the window casing or the door. I have seen flies in the elevator and hallway and sunbathing on my window screens through out the day. In the park the bees were all over the flowers and I had to avoid that area because there were so many.
 
Plenty of bugs at my house, with a swamp on one side and hundreds of acres of woods behind me everything you can imagine creeps, crawls or flys around my property. The deer flys are so bad right now a walk to the mailbox is a fight for your life.
 
Lavinia said:
Every time I go outside I get bitten....I don't see the culprits, just see the results...tiny itchy spots (and I know they are not flea bites).
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We had hordes of midges one summer up at the cabin
Little things
'No seeums'
Bit the crap out of us
Tough little beings
Hard to smash

Moved to town
Big lake nearby
Gazillion's of skeeters
Until last summer
The county imported....you guessed it......midges
Now; no skeeters

Plenty of all kinds of insects, flying or creeping, up at the cabin

Bats were welcome
They dine on skeeters
 
Got to admit that I never noticed the flying bug population around me. The only thing is I had wasps build a nest somewhere on my property every year. They didn't bother me, and I wasn't about to upset them. The last 3-4 years no wasps?????
 
Speaking of flying insects, I was driving with my windows open yesterday. I felt a terrible sharp pain in my thumb. I looked at it & a bee is stuck to my thumb by his stinger.
It's been so long since I've had a bee sting, I forgot how much it can hurt.
When I got home, I looked for the pliers, then I remembered reading that you shouldn't use pliers or tweezers to pull out the stinger because it squeezes more venom into the wound. I used a pocket knife to scrape it out.
 
No flying insects: gnats, flies, moths, millers, June bugs, nothing!
I can leave my front door wide open at night and nothing flies in.
The yellow bug light on my porch used to have flies or moths surrounding it.
No more.
experiments from bio-labs, maybe?
 
I was walking in my back yard today, which has more clover than grass right now. The clover is all blossomed out right now and when I stood still I was surrounded by the buzzing of bees, a nice steady hum. I love nature!
 
For about 2 weeks now a very tiny fly has been in our house. I haven't been able to kill him yet. What bothers me the most is my hubby falls asleep with his mouth open and I am really afraid the fly will land in my hubby's mouth and hubby will swallow it.
 
I've seen a few white butterflies in our courtyard recently because our Lantanas have been blooming. Also bees when our Jasmine was blooming. There are still flies around, because I've seen them in some of the open-air restaurants we've dined in. There is still hope!

Speaking of flying things, we have a bird feeder outside. We have seen wrens, bluebirds, doves and scarlet tanagers on the feeder. My partner put bird seed in the rocks under the feeder because we have one dove that hangs around our courtyard all the time and can't access the feeder. Hey, every bird deserves a chance.
 

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