Jun 05 2008
Skeeters
In the Moncton area, there are 17 different varieties of mosquitoes breeding over an area of about 800 thousand hectares of marshland.
They say… and by “they”, I mean the chairperson of the pest control board in southern New Brunswick so there could be some tendency to draw a more dismal picture for personal benefit… ahem, but I digress. They say that due to the long winter and the wet spring we are in for a worse mosquito season than we’ve had in decades. I’ve only been living in Moncton for 8 years, but that sounds pretty bad. They continue on to say that without a pest control program (spraying) Monctonians will be subject to up to 29 bites per minute from these rascally little nuisances. With the pest control program in place, we will only suffer 6 nips per minute.
The mosquitos are pretty bad around here. I’ve always said that if they were smart and organized, there are enough of them to single out a human from the herd, carry him away and devour him like piranhas on a wild boar or whatever kind of animal crosses rivers in South America.
I had actually build screened panels to enclose my front deck to find some relief from the relentlessness of these little suckers a few years back. However, since there’s been a lot of development in my area and fewer trees as a result, I didn’t have to put the panels up last year. Perhaps it’s time to dust them off…
“If it weren’t for flies, snakes alive, we’d be living in paradise.” Buddy Wasisname
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