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Freaka
Joined: 05 Jun 2007
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 Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2007 7:36 pm Post subject: Mosquitos in Seoul - just how bad are they? |
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Mozzies love me! They smell by blood and they think, "Yummy! Dinner!"
Will I be eaten alive by the little bloodsuckers?
(And why can "mosquitos" also be spelled "mosquitoes?") |
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Binch Lover
Joined: 25 Jul 2005
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| Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2007 7:59 pm Post subject: |
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| I want to eat you for dinner |
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esetters21
Joined: 30 Apr 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2007 8:01 pm Post subject: |
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I'm from Central Florida (where those little buggers thrive), and now live in Seoul. It seems that Korean mosquitos favor Koreans and not me.  |
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Freaka
Joined: 05 Jun 2007
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| Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2007 8:51 pm Post subject: |
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| esetters21 wrote: |
| I'm from Central Florida (where those little buggers thrive), and now live in Seoul. It seems that Korean mosquitos favor Koreans and not me. |
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Freaka
Joined: 05 Jun 2007
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| Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2007 8:54 pm Post subject: |
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| Binch Lover wrote: |
| I want to eat you for dinner |
Fee! Fie! Foe! Fum!
I smell the blood of a Freaka.
Be she 'live, or be she dead,
I'll grind her bones to make my bread. |
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dogshed
Joined: 28 Apr 2006
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| Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2007 10:17 pm Post subject: |
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I'm wondering how they will be here in Podunk.
I see lots of good breading places. I have cans
of DEET. Lots and lots of DEET. |
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Freaka
Joined: 05 Jun 2007
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| Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2007 10:59 pm Post subject: |
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| dogshed wrote: |
I'm wondering how they will be here in Podunk.
I see lots of good breading places. I have cans
of DEET. Lots and lots of DEET. |
Yes, DEET works (it worked for me in Thailand just fine), but I can't imagine having to apply it every day for a whole year! I hate mozzies!  |
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azzwell
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
Location: where the girls from Super Junior cannot find me
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| Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2007 12:35 am Post subject: af |
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| just so you know Korea does have a winter, with things like snow and ice. This seems to bring down the population for awhile so you dont have to deal with them all year. Seoul is not the tropics after all. |
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Yesterday
Joined: 15 Aug 2003
Location: Land of the Morning DongChim (Kancho)
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| Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2007 12:43 am Post subject: |
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Actually - they are not that bad if you keep your windows and doors closed....
The FACT that MOST of your kids/students will come to school - with red dots and bites all over them - and when you ask them why they will tell you because of mosquito bites....
ITs THEIR OWN STUPID STUPID FAULT....
ask them - did you sleep with your windows OPEN????
they will answer yes....
ask them why? - they will tell you - because in summer - its hot - I have to sleep with fan on - but windows have to be open if fan is on... (because of Korean MYTH of fan-death).....
because of this MYTH of fan death (windows closed)... many korean people are attacked by mosquitos each night... (windows open because fan on)....
just don't fall for the riduculous myth - and close your windows/doors....
= - NO mosquito bites.....
NOW - I am willing to sleep in a room - sealed with all doors/windows closed and sealed - and a fan close to me/pointed directly on me/turned on - whilst I sleep - for 5 nights in a row... under surveilance - JUST TO PROVE - the whole fan-death myth is bullshit - but I want (of course) to be paid (hell their privacy issues involved) - maybe 5 million won... (1 million per night)... but it will finally prove once and for all - to every person in any country - that fan-death is a MYTH... because I will guarantee I will emerge after 5 days alive.....
The problem in Korea with mosquitos is - they are having a great feed - every apartment during summer (without air-con - and Korean people usually hate air-cons) - have people sleeping during summer with fans on and windows open) - mosquitos are having a great party in korea... because of one STUPID, STUPID MYTH......
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Freaka
Joined: 05 Jun 2007
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| Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2007 12:47 am Post subject: Re: af |
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| azzwell wrote: |
| just so you know Korea does have a winter, with things like snow and ice. This seems to bring down the population for awhile so you dont have to deal with them all year. Seoul is not the tropics after all. |
I'm sure they are more prevalent during the summer months because of all the rain. Great. I'll be arriving in Seoul smack in the middle of rainy season. |
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Freaka
Joined: 05 Jun 2007
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| Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2007 12:55 am Post subject: |
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| Yesterday wrote: |
ask them why? - they will tell you - because in summer - its hot - I have to sleep with fan on - but windows have to be open if fan is on... (because of Korean MYTH of fan-death).....
because of this MYTH of fan death (windows closed)... many korean people are attacked by mosquitos each night... (windows open because fan on)....
just don't fall for the riduculous myth - and close your windows/doors....
= - NO mosquito bites..... |
My mom still believes in the fan death myth...and as a kid, so did I. It wasn't until years later that I realized it was all a bunch of baloney.  |
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Wondering
Joined: 23 May 2007
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2007 1:05 am Post subject: |
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Mosquito nets are very easy to find, set up, and use. That will keep you from getting bitten during the night. As for the day, stay near people. Chances are there will be someone the mosquitoes find far more tasty than you. I've got one poor little kindy kid that gets eaten alive every day during class. A couple of other kids might get a bite or two. The rest of us get off scot-free. One day the Mosquito Slurpy was absent. The mosquitoes then focused on another kid.
But, yeah, buy a mosquito net. It's a sanity saver. No bites and they can't get close enough to your ears for you to hear them whining. |
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Freaka
Joined: 05 Jun 2007
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| Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2007 1:21 am Post subject: |
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| Wondering wrote: |
Mosquito nets are very easy to find, set up, and use. That will keep you from getting bitten during the night. As for the day, stay near people. Chances are there will be someone the mosquitoes find far more tasty than you. I've got one poor little kindy kid that gets eaten alive every day during class. A couple of other kids might get a bite or two. The rest of us get off scot-free. One day the Mosquito Slurpy was absent. The mosquitoes then focused on another kid.
But, yeah, buy a mosquito net. It's a sanity saver. No bites and they can't get close enough to your ears for you to hear them whining. |
Oy! I forgot about the noise they make in your ear!
Why do mozzies exist? How are they beneficial to any living creature on earth? If they were wiped out, would they be missed? Are they that important to the food chain? They're vectors of disease, they disrupt our precious sleep and their bites leave red, itchy welts and sometimes, scars...I hate them! Grrr...  |
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Yesterday
Joined: 15 Aug 2003
Location: Land of the Morning DongChim (Kancho)
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| Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2007 1:26 am Post subject: |
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| Freaka wrote: |
| they disrupt our precious sleep and their bites leave red, itchy welts and sometimes, scars...I hate them! Grrr... |
close your windows and doors - before the late afternoon..................................................................................................................................................................... (their feeding time is evening and night)...................
| Wondering wrote: |
| Mosquito nets are very easy to find, set up, and use. That will keep you from getting bitten during the night. As for the day, stay near people. Chances are there will be someone the mosquitoes find far more tasty than you. I've got one poor little kindy kid that gets eaten alive every day during class. A couple of other kids might get a bite or two. The rest of us get off scot-free. One day the Mosquito Slurpy was absent. The mosquitoes then focused on another |
Do you teach KINDY kids in the late afternoon/evening???
http://www.ento.okstate.edu/mosquito/biology.html
The adult mosquito is entirely terrestrial and is capable of flying long distances. Both females and males feed on nectars which they use for energy. Males and females mate during the first 3 to 5 days after they have emerged. Females mate only once. Males generally live for only a week. Only the females feed on blood, which is what is occurring when they are biting. Females evidently gain little nourishment from blood meals but need them in order to develop eggs. Many mosquitoes feed on any warm-blooded bird or mammal. However, some prefer cold-blooded animals. Some species also prefer birds and seldom feed on mammals, which is the case with Culex spp. mosquitoes which are known to transmit the West Nile virus (WNV). Unfortunately many species feed on a wide range of warm-blooded mammals and humans are often attacked. Once a female has completely engorged she flies to a shaded environment until her eggs are completely developed, usually 3 to 5 days. Once the eggs are developed the female is called a gravid female and she begins to search for a desirable place to lay her eggs. If a female survives her egg laying activities, she will very soon start searching for another blood meal after which she will lay another batch of eggs. She does not need to mate a second time. Generally a female will only live long enough to lay 1 to 3 batches of eggs.
Most mosquito species are actively searching for a blood meal in the evening hours from just before dark until 2 to 3 hours after dark. During the daytime the females normally rest in cooler vegetated areas where the humidity is higher and they are protected from drying out. Females will often bite in the daytime if humans or animals invade the wooded areas where they are resting.
Amazing mosquito facts
You're more likely to be a target for mosquitoes if you consume bananas. Biting activity increase by 500 times when there is a full moon. A mosquito's wings beat 500 times a second.
The animal responsible for the most human deaths world-wide is the mosquito.
Mosquitoes dislike citronella because it irritates their feet.
Mosquitoes prefer children to adults, and blondes to brunettes.
A mosquito can detect a moving target at 18 ft away
The average life span of a female mosquito is 3 to 100 days. the male lives 10 to 20 days.
Mosquitoes: lay up to 300 eggs at a time, fly across 150 miles in their lifetime, range from sea level to altitudes as high as 10,800 feet (3,600 meters), develop from egg to adulthood in 4 to 7 days
Q: How many species of mosquitoes are there?
A: About 2,700.
Q: What does a mosquito weigh?
A: About 2 to 2.5 milligrams (for an Aedes aegypti).
Q: How much blood does a female mosquito drink per, er, serving?
A: About 5-millionths of a liter (for an Aedes aegypti).
Q: How do mosquitoes find new hosts?
A: By sight (they observe movement); by detecting infra-red radiation emitted by warm bodies; and by chemical signals (mosquitoes are attracted to carbon dioxide and lactic acid, among other chemicals).
Q: How fast can a mosquito fly?
A: An estimated 1 to 1.5 miles per hour.
Q: How far do certain mosquitoes fly
A: Salt marsh mosquitoes migrate 75 to 100 miles.
Q: How far away can a mosquito smell you, or a cow or another host?
A: 20 to 35 meters.
Q: Why does a film of oil on water kill mosquito larvae?
A: Because the oil clogs up the snorkel that the larvae use to breathe.
Mosquitoes don't see very well, but they zoom in like a heat-seeking missile. In the spherical arrangement of their compound eyes, blind spots separate each eye from the next one. As a result, they can't see you until they are 30 feet (10 meters) away. Even then, they have trouble distinguishing you from any object of similar size and shape: tree stump, 55-gallon drum, etc. When they are 10 feet (3 meters) away they use extremely sensitive thermal receptors on the tip of their antennae to locate blood near the surface of the skin. The range of these receptors increases threefold when the humidity is high.
Thanks for these to http://www.control-mosquitoes.com/
Why don't mosquitoes transmit HIV virus?
Studies with HIV clearly show that the virus responsible for the AIDS infection is regarded as food to the mosquito and is digested along with the blood meal.
Mosquitoes Do Not Ingest Enough HIV Particles to Transmit AIDS by Contamination
An AIDS-free individual would have to be bitten by 10 million mosquitoes that had begun feeding on an AIDS carrier to receive a single unit of HIV from contaminated mosquito mouthparts.Most people have heard that mosquitoes regurgitate saliva before they feed, but are unaware that the food canal and salivary canal are separate passageways in the mosquito. The mosquito's feeding apparatus is an extremely complicated structure that is totally unlike the crude single-bore syringe. Unlike a syringe, the mosquito delivers salivary fluid through one passage and draws blood up another. As a result, the food canal is not flushed out like a used needle, and blood flow is always unidirectional. The mechanics involved in mosquito feeding are totally unlike the mechanisms employed by the drug user's needles. In short, mosquitoes are not flying hypodermic needles and a mosquito that disgorges saliva into your body is not flushing out the remnants of its last blood meal. |
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Wondering
Joined: 23 May 2007
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2007 1:54 am Post subject: |
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No, I teach kindy kids in the morning and early afternoon. Perhaps our local mosquitoes cannot tell the time. They are most certainly biting. Our Mosquito Slurpy will come in with five bite marks on her face in the morning and leave with more than five. Perhaps the mosquitoes bite then because no one is in the school in the evenings and by the time morning rolls around, they are really hungry????
By the way, for those with pets....might want to get them tested for heartworms and then put them on heartguard or something like that. Mosquitoes pass out heartworm gifts. |
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