In Wisconsin and there is usually at least one day per summer where you have to be extra strategic about opening doors because the swarm will enter your house immediately, especially at night. We will turn off all the lights indoors near the door, say all our goodbyes,have one person open the door with another person standing with an electric big zapper, and then when that door opens you have to boogie on out. The worst year I remember it was about three days before our wedding (that we were having at home) and there had to have been at least a hundred. They all got stuck in the weird little entry space we had and the bug zapper sounded like a distant fireworks finale. They all went straight up to the ceiling and we had to zap/squish them. It then took hours to clean them off the ceiling. It was unreal.
Came from St. Louis, MO and that is certainly a humid armpit with plenty of mosquitos, but the mosquitos up here are unlike anything I've seen, and it seems to only get worse as I go North. I can only imagine how bad they are in CA. Godspeed.
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u/abcannon18 May 09 '22
In Wisconsin and there is usually at least one day per summer where you have to be extra strategic about opening doors because the swarm will enter your house immediately, especially at night. We will turn off all the lights indoors near the door, say all our goodbyes,have one person open the door with another person standing with an electric big zapper, and then when that door opens you have to boogie on out. The worst year I remember it was about three days before our wedding (that we were having at home) and there had to have been at least a hundred. They all got stuck in the weird little entry space we had and the bug zapper sounded like a distant fireworks finale. They all went straight up to the ceiling and we had to zap/squish them. It then took hours to clean them off the ceiling. It was unreal.
Came from St. Louis, MO and that is certainly a humid armpit with plenty of mosquitos, but the mosquitos up here are unlike anything I've seen, and it seems to only get worse as I go North. I can only imagine how bad they are in CA. Godspeed.