they are everywhere lolear! I had some success this am wiping tea tree oil on myself.....observed on guy come and skim my arm, checking out a landing place - but he moved on....

Realized though that my hands were all tea tree oiled and I dursn't touch anything I wanted to harvest, lol!!!

do you have them where they are out all day long?!?!?! Even in the shining sunlight??? When did that happen?

Is it a new species in the area, or a morph?

Sorry, it's different strains of Bt for caterpillars vs. mosquitos.

I just bought a bug jacket from ebay. So far I think it'll work.

I live in Louisiana. It seems the seems to have something to do with carbon dioxide output and temp. I notice them at their worst in the morning and in the evening. I have h ad good results with the OFF fan thing. I am only on my first refill though so I have not had much time to really test it.

Usually the city will bomb with insecticide if it gets bad. I know there have already been confirmations of west nile this year here. I guess a good dousing would be preferable to getting the disease. Till then I guess we will have to bundle up!

I live in chicago aswell and i heard on the news that this is the worst mosquito outbreak in 20 years.

So that's where our mosquitoes are this year! Thanks so much!

One hint for getting rid of mosquitoes is to dump all containers with standing water because they breed in still water.

When they're bad here, it's 24 hours a day. In the past 10 years or so, they even come out in the heat of the day. My opinion is that we have Mutant Ninja mosquitoes. :>

Mutant Ninja mosquitoes

Close but no cigar. It's the Asian Tiger mosquito that bites in the day 90% of the time. They came here several years ago in ships and are now wide spread just like the Japanese beetle. I think we should sue Japan.

I have to totally bundle up to do the simplest/fastest garden chore. I'm seriously thinking of getting a bee-keeper's hat.

oh no - so this is a permanent change! ARG!

I feel your sting. Up until about the last 3 weeks with no rain and temps in the mid 90s - low 100s we had a horrible case of skeeters. Picking raspberries was maddening until I got one of those insect netting hats for the head, face and neck area. Other than that, I just needed long pants, a long sleeve shirt with the collar turned up and fingerless gloves. A real comfy outfit for picking when it is 92 deg. out :(

It is nice to see they moved North where I use to live. They fly in the wind and sun in Colorado and have for many years but never as plentiful as here in Texas. With no rain for a long time they hatch from the little bit of dew that lies in the crotch of the blades of grass there (Colorado). I have seen them so bad once when we on the beach collecting sea shells (when we were new to the Texas area) and the sun started to go down and we made a run for the car. By the time we crossed the bridge our water for our windshield wipers was empty and all I could do was smear the bug juice with the wipers until I could finally see where I was going. We haven't had many this year but have seem very bad years before. They install misting systems in our area which are SUPPOSE to take care of the problem, has cedar oil as the base product. But I haven't heard any more adds in the last few years so not sure they work after all.

Asian Tiger Mosquitoes--so that's what the little buggers are!
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I thought they were yet another lovely native SC "feature"

I got http://www.johnnyseeds.com/p-6125-bug-baffler-shirt-sm.aspx for xmas last year and it is a lifesaver against mosquitos. When it is near 100 degree though it is pretty uncomfortable wearing it for a long time since it traps heat. But when the weather is cooler it is great over a short sleeve t-shirt.

I'm in Chicago too, everyone has been talking about the mosquitoes. I've dreaded going into the garden lately as they seem to hang out under the squash leaves. I've gotten 40 bites in the past week, and I'm allergic to them - I had to take a day off work!

The only thing I've found that works is to use the organic bug spray on my neck and wrists, and go out in pants, socks, shoes, and long sleeves, and get in and out as fast as possible. I've still been getting bites on my face and scalp. It's really hot wearing all that, but you can cool off and take a shower easily, whereas the bites stick around for a week.

I'm in the Chicago suburbs, they do seem bad this year. It's all the rain. Make sure you don't have any buckets or containers sitting around outside that can collect water. My village has started spraying, I saw the truck last night.

Listerine spray is supposed to work. Give it a try and please let us know the results. I have not had an occasion to try it yet as mosquitoes are not a problem in my part of S. Cal.

Mosquitoes seemed to have disappeared from my part of southern California, probably because we had four years in a row of drought. I haven't been bitten even once this year
I lived in Sri Lanka for a year where they have 14 different kinds of mosquitoes, including those carrying malaria, and you have to sleep under a mosquito net.