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How Would You Rank The Mosquitoe Cities In Arkansas
Posted on 5/20/15 at 10:02 pm
Posted on 5/20/15 at 10:02 pm
I always thought South Arkansas and Eastern Arkansas has the absolute most blood sucking Mosquitoes.
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Posted on 5/20/15 at 10:17 pm to pioneerbasketball
All I know is I once got a mosquito in my car in Brinkley on my way back to Fayetteville on a Saturday night
Drove with the windows down for a whole hour once I hit Russellville just to try and get it out
Next morning I had about 20 bites on each foot
Come Monday, I drive to work. fricker is still in there. Park at work and crack windows. Go out at lunch and fricker is still in there. Finally left sometime after lunch
Not sure how he could fly with a whole pint of my damn blood
So basically I introduced an invasive species into Washington County
Drove with the windows down for a whole hour once I hit Russellville just to try and get it out
Next morning I had about 20 bites on each foot
Come Monday, I drive to work. fricker is still in there. Park at work and crack windows. Go out at lunch and fricker is still in there. Finally left sometime after lunch
Not sure how he could fly with a whole pint of my damn blood
So basically I introduced an invasive species into Washington County
Posted on 5/20/15 at 10:37 pm to Porker Face
Hot Springs is covered in mosquitoes, mostly because the whole city is built in the valley of 3 lakes and 2 small rivers.
Posted on 5/20/15 at 10:52 pm to blackrose890
Lepanto / Marked Tree...
Stopped on the way back from Florida one year, my wife filled up the gas tank and left the door open while I took kids to the restroom.
Unbelievable. We were almost literally eaten alive.
Stopped on the way back from Florida one year, my wife filled up the gas tank and left the door open while I took kids to the restroom.
Unbelievable. We were almost literally eaten alive.
Posted on 5/20/15 at 11:19 pm to Razorback Reverend
Augusta, AR.
No debate.
No debate.
Posted on 5/20/15 at 11:22 pm to pioneerbasketball
Eastern Arkansas, that Mississippi River breeds them.
Posted on 5/21/15 at 12:18 am to Razorback Reverend
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Lepanto / Marked Tree...
This area up through Mississippi Co. You are better off just locking yourself in your house after dark.
Posted on 5/21/15 at 1:52 am to pioneerbasketball
Fishing on the Black River. I about bled to death.
Black River
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Black River
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Posted on 5/21/15 at 3:23 am to pioneerbasketball
Grew up in Osceola/Blytheville. When we played basketball at dusk in the summer we would have to wipe the blood spots off the ball where you crushed clouds of mosquitoes when you dribbled. Once it was full on dark you couldn't be outside without drenching yourself in deep woods OFF. I hate fricking mosquitoes.
Posted on 5/21/15 at 6:57 am to ThundrHawg
Where ever there is standing water, there will be mosquitoes. Arkansas is (still, I think) the leading rice producer in the US. Rice fields are flooded to control weeds. Unfortunately, it is also a breeding ground for mosquitoes. So are the oxbow lakes along rivers, backwaters, farm reservoirs on farms...
Posted on 5/21/15 at 7:38 am to WonderWartHawg
Southeast along the Delta is brutal. Brutal.
Posted on 5/21/15 at 7:46 am to Razorback Reverend
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Lepanto / Marked Tree...
Correct. Would extend from Newport up to Pocahontas / Walnut Ridge too.
All that rice has to be flooded. Millions of gallons of stagnant water = pterodactyl mosquitoes.
Posted on 5/21/15 at 8:06 am to MSmithDizzle
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Southeast along the Delta is brutal. Brutal.
+1
How anyone lived there a 100 years ago is beyond me.
Can you imagine the mosquitoes at night combined with the heat.
This post was edited on 5/21/15 at 8:10 am
Posted on 5/21/15 at 8:44 am to boogiewoogie1978
quote:That's one of the reasons that back then anyone over 35 was considered old.
How anyone lived there a 100 years ago is beyond me.
Can you imagine the mosquitoes at night combined with the heat
Posted on 5/21/15 at 10:58 am to pioneerbasketball
Stuttgart is the worst.
Posted on 5/21/15 at 12:11 pm to pioneerbasketball
I grew up in East Arkansas and probably never was outside past 6 pm in the summer. Pick practically any town east of Carlisle and you're right.
This post was edited on 5/21/15 at 12:12 pm
Posted on 5/21/15 at 2:52 pm to Feral
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Pick practically any town east of Carlisle and you're righ
Pretty much. Granted you get used to them so when you go somewhere with normal mosquitoes you don't even notice there are any.
Posted on 5/21/15 at 4:14 pm to 870Hog
They are bad, but nothing compares to the horror of Tunica, Mississippi. Went there one night with a friend to watch him and his wife throw away perfectly good money. You could see clouds, and I do mean clouds, of mosquitoes hovering outside the door to the casino. Like a drifting grey menace.
Posted on 5/22/15 at 6:59 am to boogiewoogie1978
Just and educated guess, but they probably weren't as bad in the farming country as they are now. A lot more standing water now with the huge rice fields, don't think there was much if any rice being grown 100 years ago.
Posted on 5/22/15 at 12:32 pm to pioneerbasketball
The delta is awful. Lived right off Toltec Lake for a while. You were indoors before sundown or you were eaten alive. All those cotton, rice, and soybean fields plus the lake, breeding heaven for those little shits. Had to spray down just to walk to the mailbox and back.
This post was edited on 5/22/15 at 12:34 pm
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