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- DarthTurducken, on 10/12/2007, -0/+68@RavenXeo
I was really hoping you would say "...i got an overdose of mosquito bite and now I'm .... MANSQUITO!" - Agret, on 10/12/2007, -1/+42(Reposting since this is so far down you may not see it and its more useful than the real article)
by wetworx 3 hours ago Block/Report this User
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I am not a store bought hater, but here is how to make a much better mosquito trap, for pennies and much more effective.
http://www.diyhappy.com/quick-and-dirty-mosquito-trap/
I have four setup right now and catch easily 4 liter's worth every night. SImple, effective and you really notice the drop in biters. - Bokista, on 10/12/2007, -2/+37Venkman: Why?
Egon: It would be bad.
Venkman: I'm fuzzy on the whole good/bad thing. What do you mean, "bad?"
Egon: Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light.
Ray: Total protonic reversal.
Venkman: Right. That's bad. Okay. All right. Important safety tip. Thanks, Egon. - w33t, on 10/12/2007, -6/+40It looks like a freakin' ghostbusters proton pack! http://www.gbprops.com/tutorials/pack_ap/1/images/View.jpg
- CiXeL, on 10/12/2007, -1/+30you would be a dead dead man in florida. where i used to live there was some swampland next door to the brand new complex. the city hadnt budgeted for an early starting wet season so the mosquito population bloomed when the didnt have enough poison and couldnt start spraying yet. i was bitten 3 times every morning on the way to the car which was 5-10 ft from my door and then would have to drive away with the ac on and the windows rolled down trying to blow the stragglers out of the car.
after a few weeks i developed an immunity to the bites. and then i found out from a friend who worked out in the everglades if you work for the national park or military or pay them 10,000 dollars you can get a shot made from the saliva of the mosquito that causes the same effect and makes you immune for 9 months. the immunity i received by getting bit was interesting. your body simply wouldnt respond to the bites. you may get a little knot you can feel in your skin but it didnt itch or anything. really fascinating. i always had wondered before i moved here how people in countries that dont have mosquito spraying got used to being bit all the time. now i know. - quasipalm, on 10/12/2007, -1/+30Let the uber-mosquito evolution begin!
- Gorrondonuts, on 10/12/2007, -0/+26This would be great for summer camps to have, put a few around the grounds and forget about all the horrible Off.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+30And we all know how doomed the world is without the Dodo.
- threepio, on 10/12/2007, -2/+23Sympathetic to blood sucking parasites? Forget democrat or republican - go with "you must be a politician"
- threepio, on 10/12/2007, -0/+19Don't cross the streams.
Ever. - Mesach, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20Or a lawyer
- stoops, on 10/12/2007, -2/+21I wanna put one of those in my bedroom to get that one mosquito buzzing by my ear.
- DarthTurducken, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18"Misquitos" sounds like a new Frito-Lay snack
- wetworx, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18I am not a store bought hater, but here is how to make a much better mosquito trap, for pennies and much more effective.
http://www.diyhappy.com/quick-and-dirty-mosquito-trap/
I have four setup right now and catch easily 4 liter's worth every night. SImple, effective and you really notice the drop in biters. - beanfeast, on 10/12/2007, -4/+20How do you feel about viruses and bacteria? Maybe we should try to peacefully coexist rather than come up with cures for disease. Making your backyard habitable during a BBQ isn't exactly an imperialistic act.
Were you really serious in this post or is it a badly misplaced troll against the U.S. I mean, I'm as angry with the administration as the next guy, but is a post in a story about killing mosquitos a relevant place to do it? - Raithmir, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17"our trap captured up to 1,200 mosquitoes in a single night"
Who counted them? - craigm01, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16.....somebody with a really crappy job description.
- threemagic, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17definitely 1200 misquitoes, definitely 1200..yahhh
- RavenXeo, on 10/12/2007, -3/+18YAY! i'm allergic to mosquito bites and the ones we get in the woods near my house are brutal....i swell up really badly for weeks.....i used to go walking alot..apparently i got an overdose of mosquito bite and now i'm allergic
- rodan32, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16Some 1.5-3 million people a year still die from malaria. The health of people comes ahead of making sure we have a surplus of mosquitoes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaria - Tiabin, on 10/12/2007, -4/+18The mosquito is about to go the way of the dodo...
- DeltaZ113, on 10/12/2007, -3/+16Now i definitely need one
- starsky51, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13Well, we tried to get them to sign a treaty but they couldn't even hold the pen straight. (FFS!)
- CiXeL, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13deep woods (the green can) smells like poison, use the orange can it smells alot better - more like bathroom fresh spray
- drigz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Such a cool news item, but you had to run it through that random site, with about 5 lines of original text and a big quote from the actual article, didn't you...
http://www.hammacher.com/publish/72022.asp for the actual item. - threemagic, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13Do you think the misquito would care if it sucked your blood until you died?
- pkulak, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Isn't every reaction to a mosquito bite an alergic one?
- xgravix, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13Clearly you should have committed suicide, you would have prevented a whole legion of black flies from coming into being.
You heartless bastard. =( - john570, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13It's not an animal. Its a parasitic bug. let the slaughter begin!
- Boondoggle, on 10/12/2007, -5/+15"/sigh" is possibly the most repulsive, supercilious web affectation ever.
- theoallardyce, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12Ah yes theres always one hippy who has to point out the 'lessions' we're supposed to have learnt from history such as Nazism and why genocide is always wrong even if the excuse sounds good since thats the trap that leads people into genocide and the Nazis thought what they were doing was normal and had good excuses at the time and we shouln't fall into the same trap ever again.
They are MOSQITOS. They are vile scum of the earth they must all be eradicated with no exceptions, they must be destroyed, we must wage genocide against Mosquitoes we must kill their unborn, trap them, smoke them, poison them, whatever it takes. Every square mile should have one of these machines until Mosquitoes are nothing more than lab samples and history book curiosities. The ecosystem will just have to learn to adapt or go to hell.
No I havnt learnt anything from history... - floejoe, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11Now that's a macho way to kill mosquitoes!
- hautedawg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Black flies OR deer flies, I'm not going to walk around with a paper cup with "sticky stuff" on my head. I think they'd just laugh at me!
- nlatimer, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10I think that would be Mesquitos.
- NCC1701A, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Many time I have strolled through some woods, miles from any other people. Black flies and mosquitos would then attempt to eat my flesh from its bones! I would then wonder:
If I wasn't there does a black fly still eat?
Why are there so many of them?
Where they waiting their whole short lives for me to come strolling by?
Just wonderin... - NtroP, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Care to link to that "Company in Texas"?
- shagybones, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9I agree, build a bat house. Should be 24in wide, 1in deep box with scratches inside so they can catch hold. Paint it a dark color to retain heat and mount it up 12-15 ft high on a pole (house will do but not as well. A decent size bat house will clear your outside play area very well as tehy eat hundreds of insects an hour. Remember to make nature work for you!
- CheeseheadDave, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9They weighed the empty trap first, weighed it when full, did some subtraction, then divided by the average weight of a mosquito?
- Chompy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9"They weighed the empty trap first, weighed it when full, did some subtraction, then divided by the average weight of a mosquito?"
No, I prefer to imagine some supremely unhappy guy in a lab somewhere, gingerly pulling a soggy mosquito out of a trap and scrawling "732" in a notebook. - StrawberryFrog, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8"up to" - two very small words that give you very large latitude with the truth.
- ripcrd, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Oh man, MANSQUITO, that cracked me up. I missed it on Sci-Fi, but I imagine he was a lot like my ex-wife, a parasitic leech.
- brainache, on 10/12/2007, -4/+12What about other animals which eat mosquitoes? Doesn't effect the environmental equilibrium over the whole area?
- ThugEsquire, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Anything to kill the damn skeeters.
- ramallama, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8I'm pretty sure they just counted the legs and divided by 6.
- jathos, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Unfortunately, the octenol is completely ineffective against the Asian Tiger mosquitos that have taken over the south and east coast of the US. I had a Mosquito Magnet for 2 months, and it caught four mosquitos TOTAL over that time - I'm guessing those four asian tiger mosquitos accidentally wandered into the trap, because they don't care one bit for octenol.
They developed something called Lurex to attract them, but it's just as useless.
Luckily, I was able to return the Mosquito Magnet (Home Depot has a liberal return policy) - the guy at the register said that almost all of the Magnets they sell are eventually returned. - lobsang, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Well, I'm in Florida too, and unfortunately I do not share your immunity to mosquitoes. The problem is not the big mosquitoes (as many think), but rather the small, almost invisible "no-see-ums" that infest the marsh areas of Florida. I spend quite some time mountain biking in Florida (yes, seems weird, but we do have trails), and some of the trails are near the swamps (Oleta River State Park). You'll get bitten by no-see-ums, but you won't feel the bites until two days later, when they start to itch like crazy and get very swollen. It's almost impossible not to itch, and the itch goes on for *days* (takes around 15 days to go away with me). The inevitable result is a blister where the bite was, and later, a scar.
The only repellent that works well (given the sweaty nature of the sport) is 3M's "Ultrathon". It's ultra gooey (think Elmer's Glue -- it even smells like it), but it works. - DarthTurducken, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Asian Tiger mosquitos?!?! I suddently have this image of a skeeter in black jammies and nunchakus.
- mooninite, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Indeed. Link the "company in Texas."
- frizop, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Mosquitoes don't have naturally occurring predators in my area, (New Orleans) so you're basically SOL, some frogs eat them at a young age but that's really all there is out here. We have trucks that spray daily or bi-daily that help reduce the population but you can never really get away from them outdoors.
- jonslice, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7I too would like to know the "company in Texas"
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