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[aquaticbiology]

sand fleas (the tiny biting kind not the bigger fishing kind) and biting flies around the beach, skeeters around the bay/wetlands

come to think of it I don't think I've ever seen a skeeter at the actual beach proper, just the biting flies and no-see-um tiny biting sand fleas

 

[Teresa]

sand fleas (the tiny biting kind not the bigger fishing kind) and biting flies around the beach, skeeters around the bay/wetlands

come to think of it I don't think I've ever seen a skeeter at the actual beach proper, just the biting flies and no-see-um tiny biting sand fleas

oh, we were eaten alive by mosquitoes while ON Grayton Beach for sunset several times last fall. we couldn't believe it! black flies, yes. but mosquitoes? they were ON the beach feasting on us. large hairy ones. we had to pack up and haul a@#.

 

[Jdarg]

We stayed up on Garfield St. in Grayton last summer, and if we walked down to the lake, skeeters were awful. Out in the open, fine. Up the street under the trees was brutal.

 

[Kimmifunn]

oh, we were eaten alive by mosquitoes while ON Grayton Beach for sunset several times last fall. we couldn't believe it! black flies, yes. but mosquitoes? they were ON the beach feasting on us. large hairy ones. we had to pack up and haul a@#.

Uh...Parrorthead was hanging out over on the lake with Beachblonde and her family over NYE and literally was COVERED in bites. All he did was itch his arms and legs and whine and complain. It was so werid. They were just over by the lake...

 

[Paula]

CCK: Do you notice mosquitos over in our area? I really never noticed a problem, and I've told my friends up here in Michigan that we have more mosquitos in Michigan during the summer than we have around our place in Florida. Maybe I'm just not there when the mosquitos are out.

 

[DBOldford]

I have seen mosquitos the size of small helicopters in some wooden areas and have even seen them cover a raw steak on the grill at Eden State Park, in spite of the smoke. But most of the time at Grayton, we never see one. We don't have them at Conch Out, probably because of the constant Gulf breezes. The one time I have ever seen 'skeeters (other than the legendary Skeeter from days of yore) at the beach, we lit tall citronella candles and they immediately disappeared. I know that back in the palmetto groves, you could get eaten alive by them in the old days. Frankly, that's what I think of still, when we drive through the back streets of WaterColor, although we are great fans of that development. Some people just go nuts at the thought of mosquito bites, it seems. Give me one over a chigger ("no-seeums") anyday.

"I just can't stop scratchin'!" :scratch:

 

[Smiling JOe]

By the way, sqeeters don't like to be sprayed with vinegar.