EHD is back..AGAIN!



Allen

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I'm with KDM on this. There's no hint of a cool down that will kill the little buggers any time soon. So, while I have not seen any dead or sick deer at my place, I am keeping my fingers crossed. There are a number of deer present, but nothing with enough age to be excited about.
 

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One positive is that I have a bonus crop of damsel and dragonflies. They have really kept my mosquito population under control as it's been pretty much a new batch of different colored damsel flies about every other week as of late. Pretty cool to watch them skeeter and midge killers swarm the shoreline of the pond in my backyard.
 
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I had purple martins at my house for the first time. I was astonished at how many dragonflies they fed their young. Mosquito eaters my a$$.

They’re mosquito eater eating machines. 😆
 
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I had purple martins at my house for the first time. I was astonished at how many dragonflies they fed their young. Mosquito eaters my a$$.

They’re mosquito eater eating machines. 😆

Uggh, and I am supposed to be inheriting a Purple Martin tree. But I can understand how they find dragon and damsel flies an easy target.
 


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Given my choice, I'll take the weight of purple martins in dragon flies. Purple martins are purdy, but purdy doesn't help much when you're a pint and a half low on blood and your infant nephew is being carried across the sidewalk by his entourage of attentive mosquito friends. That's just me though.
 

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A few days ago right before migration.
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Given my choice, I'll take the weight of purple martins in dragon flies. Purple martins are purdy, but purdy doesn't help much when you're a pint and a half low on blood and your infant nephew is being carried across the sidewalk by his entourage of attentive mosquito friends. That's just me though.


It is really nice to not have to deal with skeeters during the summer. I think I've only been bit around 3 times this year at my place.
 

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