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Troll_Bait
Joined: 04 Jan 2006
Location: [T]eaching experience doesn't matter much. -Lee Young-chan (pictured)
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 Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 7:19 pm Post subject: Mosquitoes?! Already?!?! |
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| This morning I caught two -two!- mosquitoes in my apartment. Winter isn't even finished yet and the little buggers are already here! |
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just because
Joined: 01 Aug 2003
Location: Changwon - 4964
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| Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 7:21 pm Post subject: |
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I suppose that is what happens when it is one of the warmest winters ever...
BTW...they are predeicting the hottest or 2nd hottest summer ever..
Should be fun |
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tzechuk
Joined: 20 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 7:29 pm Post subject: |
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Damn! Where is my COLD weather. I hate, hate, hate the heat.
I am going to Hong Kong for a month  ... even hotter. |
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Horangi Munshin
Joined: 06 Apr 2003
Location: Busan
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| Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 7:48 pm Post subject: |
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| just because wrote: |
I suppose that is what happens when it is one of the warmest winters ever...
BTW...they are predeicting the hottest or 2nd hottest summer ever..
Should be fun |
I'll believe that when I see (feel) it. I think they've had similar reports the last two or three years. They're bound to get it right sooner or later. |
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jdog2050
Joined: 17 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 7:53 pm Post subject: Re: Mosquitoes?! Already?!?! |
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| Troll_Bait wrote: |
| This morning I caught two -two!- mosquitoes in my apartment. Winter isn't even finished yet and the little buggers are already here! |
Dude...they never actually went away. I've had mosquitos in two seperate apartments ALL semester. It's the combo of a super warm winter, shallow sewers, and copious bars and resteraunts constantly tossing out water. |
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essexboy
Joined: 11 Jun 2006
Location: close to orgasm
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| Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 8:38 pm Post subject: |
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yep, i got one last night, the little beggar bit my cheek, so now i look like John Merrick, which the kids are thoroughly enjoying  |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 8:47 pm Post subject: |
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I wrote about it happening in February 2003 and 2004 but that was on relatively mild Geoje Island off of the southeast coast.
It'd be something if you're quite a bit north of that. Where on the peninsula are ya? |
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Milwaukiedave
Joined: 02 Oct 2004
Location: Goseong
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| Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 9:44 pm Post subject: Re: Mosquitoes?! Already?!?! |
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| jdog2050 wrote: |
| Troll_Bait wrote: |
| This morning I caught two -two!- mosquitoes in my apartment. Winter isn't even finished yet and the little buggers are already here! |
Dude...they never actually went away. I've had mosquitos in two seperate apartments ALL semester. It's the combo of a super warm winter, shallow sewers, and copious bars and resteraunts constantly tossing out water. |
Yep...I've dealt with them all winter and I'm pretty far North (Incheon). Even in the fridgid tempatures those little sucker survive. |
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Rteacher
Joined: 23 May 2005
Location: Western MA, USA
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| Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2007 1:20 am Post subject: |
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Just name them and consider them pets ... Training them might be difficult, but you could try taking them outside for a walk (or a "fly"...) so that they can bite a dog or cat to get their minimum daily requirement of blood. Then they can return to your apartment with you and perch peacefully on the wall without having to bother you - unless they need a late-night drink to help them sleep ...  |
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krats1976
Joined: 14 May 2003
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| Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2007 2:25 am Post subject: |
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Two words:
Global Warming!!!
That said... it's freakin' cold in Gwangju tonight.... I"m praying again for a snow day! |
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jdog2050
Joined: 17 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2007 4:53 am Post subject: |
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| krats1976 wrote: |
Two words:
Global Warming!!!
That said... it's freakin' cold in Gwangju tonight.... I"m praying again for a snow day! |
It's crazy, right? I think high latitude mosquitoes really need more than a cold snap to go away, otherwise they just wait it out in warm spots, of which Korea has plenty (warm floors=warm pipes). Did you notice a month or so back, when it snowed those little suckers were nowhere to be found...then the next day the temp was warm again and here they are.
Yeah, in Korea I was praying for a harsh winter, instead I get it in Chicago. |
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yingwenlaoshi
Joined: 12 Feb 2007
Location: ... location, location!
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| Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2007 6:51 am Post subject: |
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| Last week, I had a dragonfly in my apartment. Freaked me out. I heard this noise. Thought it was air escaping from a bottle of cider. Thought nothing of it and then heard it again. Tracked it down and saw the critter buzzing in the ceiling light in the kitchen. Don't know where it is now. |
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cruisemonkey
Joined: 04 Jul 2005
Location: Hopefully, the same place as my luggage.
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| Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2007 2:50 pm Post subject: |
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| I haven't seen any mosquitos but I have had ladybirds (live) on my balcony since last fall when there was a massive swarm. |
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seoulsucker
Joined: 05 Mar 2006
Location: The Land of the Hesitant Cutoff
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| Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2007 4:28 pm Post subject: |
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| yingwenlaoshi wrote: |
| Last week, I had a dragonfly in my apartment. Freaked me out. I heard this noise. Thought it was air escaping from a bottle of cider. Thought nothing of it and then heard it again. Tracked it down and saw the critter buzzing in the ceiling light in the kitchen. Don't know where it is now. |
Down south in the US they call 'em "skeeter hawks"...
Keep it around. If you can cope with the idea of that thing crawling around you while you're sleeping, it can be a useful houseguest, considering their diet mainly consists of mosquitos. |
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