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This thread is honestly the first time I've ever heard someone wonder why there are no mosquitoes in North Carolina.
The only area I've actually noticed the absence of mosquitoes in NC is right at the ocean. It may be a very different story in the swampy areas several miles inland, but right on the beach, they are absent.
I'm taking your share of mosquito bites. Picked up a good dozen or so today.
I know several people who don't get mosquito bites and I'm more than a bit envious of them
It's not that I don't get bitten. I get swarmed when I go back to Canada to visit. It's that mosquitoes, at least around Chapel Hill, don't exist. You never even see one flying in the air outside. In fact, you don't see any flying insects at all, at least in the cities in NC. My dad commented how we drove all the way from Chapel Hill to Wilmington and back in a day and there was not a single bug splatter on the windshield. And this was during the summer.
They do too exist in Chapel Hill as several folks have already mentioned. We live here and we get bitten all summer long. Maybe they aren't at your house, but they're at mine! Lots of flying things, too. My cat loves to try to catch them. She's partial to moths, but likes anything that flies, ladybugs, bees, butterflies, roaches (eek), cicadas. Had a crane fly in the house last night. Plenty of gnats and the noseeums come out sometimes, too.
I have bug splatter on my windshield all the time.
I don't know if you have a no-bugs here force field around you, but they're here.
In fact, I would hazard a guess that this is the FIRST City-Data thread talking about the LACK of bugs in NC. Usually it's the other way around.
They do too exist in Chapel Hill as several folks have already mentioned. We live here and we get bitten all summer long. Maybe they aren't at your house, but they're at mine! Lots of flying things, too. My cat loves to try to catch them. She's partial to moths, but likes anything that flies, ladybugs, bees, butterflies, roaches (eek), cicadas. Had a crane fly in the house last night. Plenty of gnats and the noseeums come out sometimes, too.
I have bug splatter on my windshield all the time.
I don't know if you have a no-bugs here force field around you, but they're here.
In fact, I would hazard a guess that this is the FIRST City-Data thread talking about the LACK of bugs in NC. Usually it's the other way around.
There are bugs. There are tons of cockroaches, which is gross. I'm convinced NC sprays poison to kill mosquitoes to control Zika virus. The cockroaches are probably the only thing that survives it.
There are a few municipalities in the state that do or have had a spraying program, but it's done from trucks and they certainly don't do it in Chapel Hill. That would be against everything Chapel Hill stands for. Why don't you tell us about where you live? That might give some insight into why you're not seeing mosquitoes. If you live in an apartment complex off 54, well, yeah, that's not prime mosquito habitat. The species that are down here like it shady.
It's a local thing, no matter where you are in the continent. I usually am not bothered by mosquitoes but I'm halfway up a hill. If I go to a park in the flood plain a few blocks away, we have them. My hunting lease near Greenville has them really bad. If you aren't in a low spot and have a breeze, it's generally a non issue.
I used to camp in SE Minnesota at a state park with no skeeters. It was bluff country and there was no still water around for them to breed in.
This thread is honestly the first time I've ever heard someone wonder why there are no mosquitoes in North Carolina.
The only area I've actually noticed the absence of mosquitoes in NC is right at the ocean. It may be a very different story in the swampy areas several miles inland, but right on the beach, they are absent.
The worst I've ever been eaten up by 'skeeters was while camping at the coast ON the beach!
( Hatteras area and Ocracoke, to name a couple. )
Yes, NC has their share of skeeters for sure though, from the mountains to the coast.
The worst I've ever been eaten up by 'skeeters was while camping at the coast ON the beach!
( Hatteras area and Ocracoke, to name a couple. )
Yes, NC has their share of skeeters for sure though, from the mountains to the coast.
Hmm, that's interesting. I suppose, like some of the other posts mention, it could vary from beach to beach. I personally haven't seen many, if any, mosquitoes (or many other bugs for that matter) right on the beach at NC beaches (specifically the New Hanover Co. beaches).
[quote=Archer705;48370342]Never been bit by a mosquito here near south Fayetteville[/QU
I have to spray Off on before I go outside here in Fayetteville, even to check the mail. I get bitten up bad, and some of the bites swell up or turn into huge welts. One of my kids has the same problem. We were in Zebulon last weekend and got bitten up bad too.
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