Mosquito population

[I Macaulay]

There are very few mosquitos here this year so far.  Not only missing the annoying, flying, biting, buzzing critters but the pool of the garden fountain is usually full of wigglies and there have been zero,  I was very afraid to mention this but now as the dragonfly season is approaching (They come and hang out on the withered day lily ) I am wondering if this is a universal happening.

Ian

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Ian Macaulay   Carp, Ontario

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[e.g. g]

I have been tormented by mosquitoes all season, here between Rideau Ferry and Portland, maximum 20 seconds without full body suiting before they find me and swarm.  But over last two-three weeks everybody around here is complaining about how bad and how early this year are the deerflies/sandflies (i.e. with the amber spotted wings).

Elizabeth G

On Jul 22, 2025, at 8:43 AM, 'I Macaulay' via NatureList <natur...@googlegroups.com> wrote:



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[Frederick W. Schueler]

On 7/22/2025 8:41 AM, 'I Macaulay' via NatureList wrote:
> There are very few mosquitos here this year so far.  Not only missing
> the annoying, flying, biting, buzzing critters but the pool of the
> garden fountain is usually full of wigglies and there have been zero,  I
> was very afraid to mention this but now as the dragonfly season is
> approaching (They come and hang out on the withered day lily ) I am
> wondering if this is a universal happening.

* about 43 little ones on the screen of the bedroom window this morning,
and lots around now - this mat be due to not clearing out the rain
barrel. We were just over at Joyce Cook's 4 km from here and weren't
bothered by any.

Last week at a camping event in Almonte we were so swarmed by them that
on our first night when my duty was to stay in the little sardine-can
trailer and kill Mosquitoes, I had 22 blood stains on my handkerchief
before I was done. These all seem to be a little species which isn't
painful or noticed when it bites.

fred.
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[I Macaulay]

Very strange,  I live on a swamp.  The pond slicing through  the swamp is my property.

We are usually buried in Squiters.  I sure hope it isn't something We have done.

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[Jeanne Lambert]

The mosquitoes are back here now.. south of Bishop's Mills amongst our cedars. 

There were only a few in May and June but they are prolific now - day and night - since the heavy rains and we have lots of dragonflies, too, in their usual rotation.   I also noticed the dragonflies first this season even when there weren't many mosquitoes! it's usually the other way around - we get an influx of mosquitoes and then the dragonflies follow.

I don't notice any difference in their bites or my reaction to them - which remains negligible in our forested area.  

But I did get bitten by a mosquito near Burritt's Rapids a couple weeks ago and it was not only itchy and swollen, but lasted for a couple of days.

[Frederick W. Schueler]

On 7/22/2025 10:42 AM, Frederick W. Schueler wrote:

> lots around now - this may be due to not clearing out the rain barrel.

* but the rain barrel is amazingly devoid of larvae - it had a pelt of
Spirogyra algae on the surface, but when I removed this there were no
larvae seen, or in buckets of water removed. In past years there have
always been wrigglers in the barrel. These hordes of little painless
Mosquitoes must be breeding somewhere else.

[P Auritus]

Mosquitoes here in Niagara...

Did someone spray Bt in your area, for spongy moths or something like that? That would whack mosquitoes.

There is also West Nile or other control, using methoprene, but being Ottaw-ish area, that seems unlikely. 

You near Kanata North? BTW is used in some wetlands there to control mosquitoes, and I think they targeted some wetlands this summer.

Shane

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[rmb...@istar.ca]

When my ex and I had the trailer we found that the "citronella"
geraniums to be quite useful. They didn't stop the mosquitoes outside
but when we brought a couple of plants inside the trailer at night the
mosquitoes pressed themselves against the screens on the windows, then
they were easily dispatched with a slightly damp balled up paper towel.

Rose-Marie

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