making large bug zapper for mosquitos

I noticed, years ago that when I switched to diet soda, and eliminated any sugar sweetened food from my diet that they don't bother me as much as they do, others who still use lots of sugar.

Dragonflies seem to nest near water. Its amazing the colors they come in. I stepped out my front door about 12 years ago and saw seven, powder blue dragonflies with about a three inch wingspan lined up on the edge of the step. They were all in a neat line, and angled about 45 degrees like a small fleet of bi-planes waiting for their turn to take off. I wish I had owned a good camera with a macro lens, back then. I've never seen anything like it, again.

I was out in the garage er shop tonight moving things out of the way so I can insulate the room I'm making in there for the lathe and mill. I left when mosquitoes that would barely fit in a 1.25" dia sphere showed up. Damn, never saw them that big before. Normally they are 1/2" inchers.

Wes

-- "Additionally as a security officer, I carry a gun to protect government officials but my life isn't worth protecting at home in their eyes." Dick Anthony Heller

Wouldn't it be great to have built in memory modules connected to our eyes? See something and think CAPTURE IMMAGE! Gerry :-)} London, Canada

Dragonflies lay their eggs in streams. Helglamites (evil looking things) are baby dragonflies.

i didn't know that! i had to look it up, found this...

this guy is saying dragonflies lay their eggs in still waters.

Ah. Thanks, Ed, that explains a lot. I lived in Sarasota for most of a five year stretch, and I recall the locals as being slow, fat, and prone to =sploosh= (messily) when swatted with a towel. They also seem to _buzz_ rather than whine, unlike our native Viriginia species.

Wes,

For the sake of mammals everywhere I sincerely hope that what you saw were non-blood-sucking Crane Flies ("mosquito hawks") and not mosquitoes:

Frank McKenney

-- I have come to believe, not in fate, but in forks in the road, choices we make with no knowledge of the outcome. You step off the curb in one direction, you get run over. You step off in the other direction and and you meet someone who changes your life. -- Baxter Black / Hey, Cowgirl, Need a Ride?

-- Frank McKenney, McKenney Associates Richmond, Virginia / (804) 320-4887 Munged E-mail: frank uscore mckenney ayut mined spring dawt cahm (y'all)

Still talking about mosquitoes, right?

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The Buzz is due to mass and wing area. They're most of an inch long, and let out with a satisfying "crunch" when you smack 'em.

The 'skeeters we had around Alexandria look like dwarfed miniatures compared to the Malaysian Tiger Mosquitoes we have here in da Sayouth.

LLoyd

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Darn! I'd hoped it was Democrats he was referring to.

-- The doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advise his client to plant vines. --FLW

I think most of us want to commit mosquito genocide. After all, they bit first.

Wes

True. But I did not make the statement you reference.

Yeah. Most of the local _citizens_ didn't move all that fast, either, but I don't think they'd =sploosh= very well. =Growl=, maybe, or =roar=, but not =sploosh=.

Frank

-- The world is divided into two groups of people: Those to whom "No user serviceable parts inside" is a warning, and those to whom it is an open challenge and provocation!

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A few miles south of here, in south Jersey, they have the twin-engined variety. They're hard to kill; they still fly pretty well with just one engine.

-- Ed Huntress

It could be they're a non-biting relative that we call "Jersey Skeeters." They look just like a real mosquito except that they're about 1-1/2 or even

The first time someone from out-of-state sees one their eyes open as big as saucers. If those things drank blood, one bite could throw you into shock.

-- Ed Huntress

I think it's a variety of crane fly that we call the "jersey skeeter." It's a skinny one, but otherwise it looks like the standard variety.

-- Ed Huntress

Interesting. I haven't seen the monsters since but I have my digicam at the ready in case they come back. Wes

As long as it didn't misfire and capture those things you never wanted to see, in the first place.