700 miles south of us in June. Now 300 miles south.
Last outbreak was in the 60s
All the Best, Jeff
Riiiiiight. I was waiting for something like this, 'though I was expecting something like Cow Flu.
And weâre supposed to believe them, I guess. Just like with Bird FluâŚ
âThis is our inspector, who declared your poultry to be infected, and mass executions must begin immediately to contain it. Oh, and no, you donât get a second opinion, nor any results from our âtestsâ, plus itâs illegal to hire your own inspector, and itâs also illegal to test your own birds. Just try us. You must just shut up, listen, and obey.â
Then of course the price of eggs, etc., went up into the stratosphere.
Oh, but wait! Billy Gates and his Mutant Mosquitoes has the perfect solution!
Waxy lab-grown butter that doesnât need cows, and fake lab-grown meat that doesnât⌠well, okay, it does need cows, specifically unborn cows to provide the blood drained from the crittersâ hearts that makes FBS (fĹtal bovine serum) so we can create this ânon-meat meatâ.
What a happy coinkydink!
Itâs the wrong decade to be either a farmer or a rancher.
Or someone who needs to⌠you know⌠eat.
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Oh, sorry, even though that was dripping with sarcasm (not directed at you, of course), I didnât point out that Billy Gatesâs Mutant Mosquitoes that were created, supposedly sterile and dumped into the wild by the millionsâŚ
âŚwerenât.
So, yah, to supposedly combat malaria, dengue fever, etc., they in fact contributed to the problem by creating and releasing millions more carriers!
And now theyâre going to try that with the screwworm? Oh lordyâŚ
Stock up on bug-zappers and keep 'em around Bessie.
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Mad cow did fade from sight a couple of decades ago.
Yeah, that was fairly easy to deal with, as the beasties would have to literally eat tainted⌠parts⌠from an infected critter. Ie, it wasnât spread by flies, skeeters, aerosolised snot, etc.
What the âfarmsâ(?) did was grind up parts to use as feed. It was cheap, so they did it. It was only when wiping out an entire herd cost more than buying known-safe feed that they decided to do it right.
Oh, thatâs also why farm animals like cows, chickens, etc., have to be loaded up on antibiotics, because ârecyclingâ on farms would lead to this kind of thing.
Whatâs scary is that screwworms, etc., can in fact infect clean herds, but mitigation should prevent it or at least minimise the infection rate. But if(!) thereâs an agenda, you know itâll deliberately be blown out of proportion.
Or maybe even âencouragedâ with <coff!> âsterileâ flies being released out into the wild.
Quick aside, I started using âmosquito dunkâ in containers deliberately half-filled with water. And it seemed to be working quite well, as Iâd get eaten alive by those fâers within 10sec of going outside, but that slowed significantly.
But imagine if the opposite happened, that with more âtrapsâ that instead acted like breeding grounds, the skeeter population exploded. Iâd be pretty pist!
Yup. I tend to be a little suspish of the idea of attracting critters into my space because I have device to kill them.
I have used those devices though and now Iâde rather just make my space inhospitableâŚof course all of the âgoodâ critters are welcome to stay. Itâs a fine line to meâŚ
Sorry. Screw Worm Fly: Looks like a house fly with big red eyes?
Just for grins I looked up one of the companies I worked for in my college years. They were big in mosquito abatement and I was in the part that drove around in a crapped out pickup truck at night trying to follow a half assed map while spraying malathion. Turns out they donât do that anymore and have switched to more eco-friendly stuff.
Funny, because I just saw a video about a yellowjacket trap that a guy put out right next to his house because he was getting harangued by them. Trap worked great, but there were a pile of comments were along the lines of âCongrats! Great job of luring those beasties right to your house!â, and others were saying that those SOBs remember people and locations and can be spiteful and vindictive just for the lulz.
But yeah, Iâd be putting those traps as far away from my house as possible.
Me, I say âKIWF!!!â when it comes to yellowjackets and skeeters. I opt for the highest voltage zappers that make 'em explode into their constituent molecules.
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Bug zappers are a spectator sport when they get fired up in someones house for the first time.
Put a piece of plantain in one instead of the usual banana. Sounded like Jiffy-pop for a while. Guess a change of menu helped.
Iâve been giving zappers out as gifts this summer. More critters this year.
All the Best, Jeff
Also, those handheld tennis-racquet zappers, donât underestimate the power of freshly-charged cells.
I had the usual NiMH cells in there, press the button and the LED still lights up fine, but when I was frying flies stuck to the screen (nfi how they even make it inside), they just sizzled a bit. Kept 'em sizzling a while, then dump them into the sink and squoosh with paper towel before tossing.
Nah, canât be right. Topped off the cells, next batch of flies sizzled and popped so wonderfully, and the smell of burnt-hair (ie, burnt fly) filled the air like incense.
Hot rod a zapper with a stun gun for ultimate vaporization. And speaking of vaporization, be careful not to get water droplets in the zapper mesh, or you get trace amounts of stinky ozone.
Been giving these to folks. Like that the tubes are inside the HV grids.
Having a timer keeps the worry of having a cheap electric device going when left unattended.
Donât forget mosquito attractant. They donât give a rats ass about the lights.
Actually an old yellow hot wire seems to do a better job than UV.
All the Best, Jeff
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PS If you got Mothra sized bugs try clipping some of the vertical wires on the protectors so the bigâens can get through.
All the Best, Jeff
If you have flying insects that dont even fit into that machine, you best bet is to move to another state.
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All sizes of beasties here. Aside from the skeeters which do sometimes hit the grid, the occasional housefly get it, but mainly what I want to die die die are those pointy-ass gnats that bite my head, plus the occasional fruitfly(?) that hover around the garbage bag if I toss food into it (mostly vegetal like bananananana peels, etc.).
Yeah, hate them little buggers - a little nanna peel with a bit of the nanna left inside works . Not sure what attracts gnats. Maybe the pit of the shirt you cut the grass in.
All the Best, Jeff
Just googled, apple cider vinegar with sugar works on some of them.
Cool video.
All the Best, Jeff
No grass, thank Bâharni (pbuh!).
Just went out to yank up the jungle of weeds, though, in the front dirt âgardenâ and whatâs growing in the cracks between pavement slabs in back, as well as those fân vines that were using dead pine-needles as soil. Like, wtf??
âLife finds a wayâ taken to stoopit extremesâŚ
I leave out the carcasses to dry out to make 'em lighter for stuffing into garbage-bags.
Long sleeves, fleece pantaloons, while arms/legs didnât get all bit up, my headâs all itchy.
I gotta make/get a burn-barrel with rocket-stove design so thereâs no smoke.
The theory is great, but all it takes is one airdrop of flies where they didnât quite dial it up to 10, and what they released are actually fully-loaded flies.
Thatâs the problem with nets, that all it takes is one hole, and there it goes.
Just like the guy with the yellowjacket trap, that brought all of them right to his home. What if the lid wouldnât be snapped on quite tightly, or if the trap fell and cracked open? Then you got an assload of yellowjackets right outside your front door that just gorged on the meal you so graciously provided.
âScrews fall out all the time. The worldâs an imperfect place.â
â John Bender