I hope this hot weather will kill them off quickly! We have swarms of gnats, pesky but at least they don't bite. And house flies -- I've never seen them as bad as they are this year. sigh.

Perhaps a neighbor has some small container forgotten in the yard that can hold water and breed mosquitoes. It doesn't take much. I wear long sleeves and pants and try to cover most of my head and face, but I found a bite on my eyelid yesterday. Supposedly West Nile is now in eastern WA.

Maybe we all need to build bat houses. I noticed swallows busy flying everywhere we went on a trip to eastern WA. We saw lots of nice wildflowers but didn't get any mosquito bites there.

No kidding, worst mosquito infestation ever! Must be the endless cold wet winter then blam! instant height of summer. We have a Newfoundland puppy and have been taking him to parks and trails every evening since February and now it's unbearable with the writhing clouds of mosquitos so thick one breathes them in. Going to have to get out the head nets today. Just try walking along any Willamette beaches and it's Twilight Zone horror movie time.

There are so many mosquitos that they are desperate for blood and not even a nuclear bomb could deter them.

Walking by the Willamette last evening was like an African Queen experience - Bogie and Hepburn driven to dive into the water to save their sanity! Mosquitos and gnats in huge clouds. I'm a 54 year old Oregon native and have NEVER seen mosquitos like this.

It's bad here in SE Portland also. The last foot of rain that fell in May/June occurred in mild temperatures. It is also possible that the budget for vector control was reduced this year and places like Oaks Bottom on the Willamette River were less controlled. Or the heavy rain over-rode the control measures.

Oddly behaved skeeters, also; they don't buzz your head. The first indication is you're a pint low on blood and scratching.

We have a bunch of them too. I'm sure there were many puddles around the woods for them to breed in this year. Swallows, bats, and tadpoles help control them around us, but they have a lot of land to cover around us.

I use a product called SSSting stop for the bites and to repel them, unless they changed the ingredients that would repel them. It's good for stings from bees, wasps, etc. too.

Was informed by neighbor/ER nurse today that they had not received any notice of cutback by county vector control.The notice is important because it can affect local health care systems.

This conversation occurred as I was swatting at mosquitoes.

So the hip fan didn't work? Darn.

E-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e.

It didn't work for me but many on the Perennials forum swear by it.

Oregonian article said they are floodwater mosquitoes rather than our normal ones and they breed in the tiniest of water sources and they bite more than once too.

I do feel they are decreasing somewhat. I've only had one bite today rather than dozens......