I’m Moving Back Across The River

[fishinwrench]

We had a hatch of these guys yesterday evening..... but nothing but dead ones covering the ground today.    I'm glad they were short lived 👍 

[snagged in outlet 3]

8 hours ago, jdmidwest said:

Buffalo gnat attack tonite when I mudded in tomato plants.  Those viscious critters arrived a few years ago.

Those things are nasty buggers!    I got bit up a couple years ago.    They prefer to bite around eyes.  My eyes were about swollen shut.    I keep a head net in my boat now.  

[jdmidwest]

1 hour ago, snagged in outlet 3 said:

Those things are nasty buggers!    I got bit up a couple years ago.    They prefer to bite around eyes.  My eyes were about swollen shut.    I keep a head net in my boat now.  

They get me around the ears and neck.  I wear glasses so they must protect the eyes.  I get huge welps that itch for days then get hard in center.  100x worse than a tick or mosquito.

Like you, I have nets for my head.  They are a month early this year, usually peak around Memorial Day.

Not sure where they came from, but I wish nature would delete them.

[BilletHead]

Alaska 2025

[Oneshot1]

15 hours ago, jdmidwest said:

Ticks are getting infected by foreign disease, invasive species bring it in.

Over population of carrier species, fur bearers, armadillos, otters, etc.  Lots of critters that were not here 60 years ago.  And a buttload of deer, cameras show them suffering badly from them.

Seed ticks always welped me up as a kid.  When I mashed a tick in my fingernails, it smelled like the herbicide they sprayed powerlines with.

My farm was covered with cows, hogs, chickens, and dogs as a kid.  Fields were cultivated and pastured.  Woods were pastured also and open.

Now, nature has let things grow up and I mow and brush hog, underbrush getting thicker.  I never get into seed ticks, mostly yearlings or mature adults.

Buffalo gnat attack tonite when I mudded in tomato plants.  Those viscious critters arrived a few years ago.

 

 

Yea me and my Granddaughter was cleaning fish in Louisiana and Buffalo Gnats were tearing us up.

Looked at my Granddaughter and said yes they are eating me too but the fish an’t going to clean themselves.

oneshot

[Quillback]

Man I hope those buffalo gnats don't move in here.  Plenty of ticks here, but no flying, biting insects.  The gnats are annoying, they'll fly in your face, but they don't bite.

[Oneshot1]

31 minutes ago, Quillback said:

Man I hope those buffalo gnats don't move in here.  Plenty of ticks here, but no flying, biting insects.  The gnats are annoying, they'll fly in your face, but they don't bite.

Told my wife they were worse than Mosquitoes.

oneshot 

[jdmidwest]

6 hours ago, Oneshot1 said:

Told my wife they were worse than Mosquitoes.

oneshot 

Mosquitoes any day over Buffalo gnats, they suck....

[Quillback]

Chiggers - I forgot about them.  Thankfully they don't fly.