Mosquitoes

[Presley Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Presley]

I don't have a lot of experience with mosquitoes. We stayed a night at Seapointe the other night on bonus time and mosquitoes were getting us when we were sitting in by the pool. That resort is across the street from the beach. I've never seen mosquitoes at the beach before, but they were there chomping down on us.

The odd thing is that days later, we keep finding more mosquito bites. Can it take days for a mosquito bite to swell and become noticeable? I started getting worried that we had bed bugs, too. The welts are very big and spread out, though. They look very different than pictures of bed bug bites.

[StressCadet Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close StressCadet]

HI Presley,

As you know, we were at Seapointe this week too. My son has some bites on his feet. I asked him if there were any elsewhere on his body and there were not. His are not mosquito bites..that much we know as we didn't really spend much time at the pool and never saw any mosquitoes. We did spend an afternoon in the sand at La Jolla Shores-so I thought maybe he had sand flea bites. No one else has any though. He used a roll a way while we were there. I don't have much experience with mosquito bites ... they must not find me desirable...but now I'm reading about bed bugs and learning that your reaction to them can vary. Some people get splotchy welts and others just the smaller bites. My son doesn't itch whatsoever...so that's good.

[Pstreet1 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Pstreet1]

Mosquitoes absolutely love me, and unfortunatey, I have a great deal of experience with them. It is true that people's reactions to them vary: some hardly react, and others (like me) get swollen areas varying from the size of a quarter to a silver dollar; it depends on how alergic you are to the chemical the mosquito injects into you to thin your blood for easy removal. However, I don't think anyone gets a delayed reaction to a mosquito bite; the reaction usually occurs within a few minutes to a few hours; I can't imagine days later.

[Presley Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Presley]

I was looking for pics on the internet and the Mayo clinic site said it could take up to 2 days for the bites to be noticeable.

I could have had more since I've been home, being that I'm walking my dogs when the sun goes down to avoid the heat.

We were swatting mosquitoes while we sat by the pool at night. We both commented how we've never seen them by the beach before. Maybe they came along with some tourists.

Incidently, if you google images of mosquito bites and then bed bug bites, the exact same pictures come up.

[tonyg Goomba & Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close tonyg]

Mosquitoes occur where there is standing water for a week---to allow the eggs to hatch and transform from larvae to pupae and the mosquitoes. Somehow they manage to survive dry spells, but their numbers decrease greatly with no rain or standing water to breed in.

[shaggy Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close shaggy]

We were eaten alive last week in Sanibel. Poor Kelli has welts all over her legs and arms. Mine wasn't as bad.

[M. Henley Class President Find all posts View Profile Close M. Henley]

Tony is exactly correct. The resort may be allowing standing water in some container(s) around their property.
I would assume that you don't find them much around a beach would be because the eggs cannot survive in salt water. That doesn't mean, however, that if there is fresh water standing in the area that the mosquitoes would not be present.
I seldom get bitten, but Rita is eaten alive if mosquitoes are in the area.

[easyrider Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close easyrider]

You may have been the victims of the terible " No See Ums". These bugs bite and sometimes it takes days before the bite starts to itch. My worse encounter with these critters was at the Mucky Duck on Captiva Island. The bites resembled hives.

Bill

[bigfrank Administrator Find all posts View Profile Close bigfrank]

it can also be ants mean ones. Btw try using witch hazel it works

[mdurette Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close mdurette]

We live in a MA ocean front town. One of the WORSE places in town for Mosquitoes is in the parking lots of our town beaches. They are terrible. On the beaches...there are issues with sand fleas.

The worse part about it here.....some carry West Nile Virus.

[Presley Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Presley]

I don't know if I am just paranoid now, but I could swear there was one on my screen when I opened up my laptop this morning. I think they are stalking me. They are probably friends with the spiders in Frank's bedroom.

[chriskre Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close chriskre]

With the surge in foreclosures here in my neck of the woods the pools are a huge breeding ground for mosquitoes.
The banks aren't taking care of the pools, all they do is put a fence over the top of them but the rain water accumulates below and the mosquitoes are having a field day. Actually it seems that it's more than just mosquitoes running rampant out there.

Since you were near the beach though, I'd bet it was the no see ums. They are notorious here during the summer.
I dare not go out after sundown on the west coast of Florida since it's overrun with them.

Maybe they decided to move west.