No cicadas around here and mosquitoes under control with the long drought. I remember those long muggy nights in East Texas at relatives with a small fan blowing over a sweat wet bed while wide-open windows that let in sounds of cicadas, dogs barking, wildlife rustling around, a few mosquitoes, the smell of skunk, and sounds of tin roofs and metal cans cooling and popping. I slept with my sheet over my head and my pillow pushed against my ears. It was a horror show with my asthmatic cousin, on the bed over, snoring loudly, then gasping for breath. She fell fast asleep after telling me scary stories about a crazy man that roamed the woods. Sometimes the itching from chigger bites on my upper legs and the smell of the sulfur caked on the bites would distract me and I would actually fall asleep before dawn. I can sympathize with your annoying predicament.
Just barely into September, and it is 63 degrees here at 8AM. We had a cold, wet summer this year (compared to usual summer weather here), and now it seems like we are rushing right into fall already. Supposed to warm up to 84 by later today, and it looks like that is about how we are going to be this month.
It was 47 two mornings ago, a high of 65 in the afternoon. Brrr, I hate it. Not as cold this morning but I have the furnace on anyway. Had the room heater on in the bedroom the last two nights. I miss the hot muggy weather. Will probably not see it again for 9 months or so.
Not any mosquitoes this year which is very unuaul for Flroda. But ants are really bad.I have lots of ant bites could hardly sleep for itching. I got up at 5am itching like crazy tore off bed clothes mattress woke hubby looking in horror for bed bugs [ also thinking what the heck not a good first time for this one] thinking maybe its that but no signs so its not that yet ants on porch and where I sit in living room.Sometimes I don't know they stung me. Which is again unusaul. Never had this happen. Maybe all the rain that never stops this year is bringing them out of their beds? Temp here is about 89 but will get to 89.
Still cool and rainy here, but only one light frost so far. Night temps into the 40s F. and highs into the high 50s or low 60s , although it got up to 68 F. yesterday.
Nope, moved here from Georgia 32 years ago. I live about 60 miles north of Anchorage. Lived in the Bush when I first moved here, but moved onto the road system in 1992.
Never really had ants bad and only around the kitchen window sill. I poured some Avon Skin So Soft original scent on the window sill and never had a problem since.
We haven't either this is another new for us. Ant bites outside working in the yard is one thing but never been stung by an ant in the house.
@Marie Mallery Here in the Desert we are supposed to watch out for scorpions, rattle snakes, and the like, but in 10 years here we have only seen two scorpions, and only a harmless snake once out by the pool. Ants are another thing, however. The worst are very tiny, hardly an eighth of an inch long, and are busy outdoors in underground nests noticeable only by small heaps of dirt with a tiny entrance hole. They are attracted to sugar and fat. We have had large numbers invade the house on several occasions. Once, I found a kitchen cabinet full of them, hundreds, attracted to the dribblings on the outside of a bottle of olive oil. Another time, they completely covered the sponge used to wash dishes. Gotten on the body, they can bite like the devil! My wife's mother, visiting once, came running out of the bedroom, where she had been eating a cheesy snack, with ants biting her all over! The worst thing about these is their small size, hardly visible down on the floor, or at a distance, unless great in number. Frank
Ants musst be running out of food or something. I know last few nights I had no sleep for itching And we sprayed mopped again so far no new ants or bites.
@Marie Mallery Our tiny ants I think are Pharoh Ants. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharaoh_ant Their bites are somewhat painful, then itchy, but the effect lasts a fairly short time, less than an hour. My wife tried "baits" which supposedly get carried back to their nest and destroy it. She refuses to try the method again, due to the huge number of ants attracted to the baits. Frank