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Originally Posted by poohbear_nc
...Tom - the flies are beginning to move in here! And we saw a couple of those giant mosquitoes! I'm stocking up on DEET!
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The biting flies? Have you bought one of those electric tennis racket fly zappers yet? They at least give you some sense of revenge when you bite back with one. A tip: I replaced the AA batteries in ours with those super Energizer batteries that advertise a 9 times greater lifespan in electronic devices such as cameras. Now it really lights them up. I blew the body off one the other day. His ugly head stayed in the wire net until I shook it loose. A bit cruel, but oh, so cool!
Here's the good news about those giant mosquitos: they prefer horses to people. I assume they also prefer horses to chickens, but that's only speculation on my part. The important thing is not to take a chance, because their bite is reportedly proportion in pain to their size, so what I'm recommending is that you get a horse and have it nearby whenever you go outside to draw the mosquitoes away from you. Best thing about a horse is that you can ride along and swat the green flies with the tennis racket zapper as you go, thus turning what would otherwise be a miserable outside experience into a refreshing game of terminal (for the bugs) polo.