Mosquitos... In Winter?

might have had the odd one, more in autumn. i had a fly though if that's any help

@chibam Hi chibam I saw this new gadget that you wear on your arm like a watch. it repels mozzies safely without poisons. It recharges in 30 mins (I cannot remember how much it cost or how long it lasted) but I thought about trying it out. Saw this on You Tube. Might be worth a look.

@chibam @Bunniekins @plasmo

Mosquitoes - no - but I believe they might be around

I have blowflies and in July in Melbourne - unheard of I am sure

Dec 😷

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@plasmo wrote:

might have had the odd one, more in autumn. i had a fly though if that's any help

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Yeah, I saw one back in about May, I think - which is insanely late in the year for us to be seeing flies around here.

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@Bunniekins wrote:

@chibam Hi chibam I saw this new gadget that you wear on your arm like a watch. it repels mozzies safely without poisons. It recharges in 30 mins (I cannot remember how much it cost or how long it lasted) but I thought about trying it out. Saw this on You Tube. Might be worth a look.

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Yeah, those sorts of things have been around for ages. When I was a kid, I remember reading a book about how you could build the basic mechanism for one of those things yourself. The trick is knowing which ones genuinely work and which ones are just moneyspinners.

@chibam yes if I come across it again I will let you know the brand so that you can have a look. Mozzies are awful and with the warmer winters the more we will experience mozzies. Do you keep folliage to a minimum around the house and get rid of any stagnent water around the house?

its water not temp re mozzies think @chibam I remember getting eaten alive by them in cold in queensland forest in winter

I haven't seen any recently but I did hear on the radio that a mosquito starts every day with a choice to be violent....so I don't like them!!

@chibam

@Bunniekins @TAB

It's funny you should both mention water. Short answer to your question is that, no, I don't know of any stagnant water around the place. But over the summer, we developed a stain on our roof that's obviously come from some newly-developed leak that we haven't been able to trace. So is it possible that there's stagnant water hiding somewhere in our rafters? I can't rule it out.

@TABNot that I've noticed. It would have to be very well hidden if it is out there. There are some stillwater ponds in the nearby bushland, maybe 50-75m from my house, but nothing aside from that.

Certainly nothing that's only just cropped up this year. As I said, whatever the explaination is, this winter has been unique in terms of mozzies.