Mosquito bite looks like St. John!
My mosquito bite looks just like St. John! Call the local paper!
Down islands visible with even greater imagination.
The most recent bloom is bad, and reports from all corners of the island suggest one of the worst mosquito blooms in a long time. We asked our island-wide staff for field reports:
-I’m afraid to leave my room. Every time I go outside, they cover me so bad it looks like my arms are covered in hair. –Coral Bay
-We’ve gone through two cans of Deep Woods Off and this is only our second day here. –Chocolate Hole
-I just got a new of box bug zappers, and as soon as I opened it I sold five of them. –Cruz Bay retailer
-I’ve got fire ants in my coconut bra. –North Carolina
Did you know (Source: World Book Online):
-The buzz you hear is mosquito wings flapping at 1,000 times per second. Go ahead. Say “One-thousand-one.” Now, count to 1,000.
-The bite includes a dose of venom which your body rejects. That’s the itching and swelling part. (But your body wins!)
-Mosquitoes are technically flies.
-The word “mosquito” is Spanish for “little fly.” Similar to fuquerito.
-Only females feed on humans.
-Females live for a month or more. Alas, the men all die in 7 days.
August 26th, 2008 04:55
Do not use that mosquito bite for navigational purposes.
August 26th, 2008 06:27
So you have a little Mosquito problem? What a bunch of whiners – in Kodiak they are the size of a Cape Air Blue Tail.
Nice thing about them you can hear them coming and they usually knock you to the ground before they attack. Hence giving you a quick moment to unload more Ode de Deet.
All the woman smell the same in Alaska..
I guess men do to for that matter..
August 26th, 2008 07:09
Reading…reading…composing a lucid point about our trip and the bugs…reading…reading…
HEY!
As I was saying, our house this time had great breezes so the mosquitos barely bothered us. Once we hit town, or the Reef Bay hike, we got blasted. The damn bugs on the trail were evil.
I still think the ones here in NC are more evil. They swarm us as soon as we leave the house.
August 26th, 2008 08:24
With a mosquito bite like that, you’ll never be lost on island…
August 26th, 2008 09:39
Just wondering… I’m a cancer survivor (YAY ME!!!) Before I got sick “skeeters” I was top on their food chain! Since then they don’t bite me. Its wierd! No chemo, no radiatoin..just surgery. Anyone have an explanation?
BTW.. I don’t reccomend my way of getting rid of my “skeeter” bites.
August 26th, 2008 09:53
Nice bicep shot!
August 26th, 2008 10:08
Looks like that bite added 10% to those massive bicepts!
Stay underwater, they can’t get you there.
August 26th, 2008 10:33
Females live for a month or more. Alas, the men all die in 7 days.
And all is right with the world
August 26th, 2008 12:39
Comparing the mosquito bite to the birthmark from Tradewinds = Funniest. Post. Ever.
August 26th, 2008 13:27
I bet Vicotr has a tea that’s a natural repellent!!
August 26th, 2008 16:15
I’m with Teresa on this one…I almost fell into a walleyed fit!!! That’s an instant classic!
August 26th, 2008 17:18
If I had my camera with me, I’d show you my Virgin Islands birthmark on my leg. I have all 3 islands! Really!
August 26th, 2008 20:27
All St. John needs is some bats. We have ‘em here in Wisconsin.
They work great for eating up ‘dem skeeters. It just sucks when they sneak into the house with your teen-ager coming home from a date. A tennis racket works well for “stunning” them though. Pete is the master.
I’m just sayin’ we can bring some bats down with us next time we’re there…they eat up something like 10,000 skeeters an hour, a piece! That’s got to work better than any coil you could burn.
August 27th, 2008 08:49
Marcia, STJ does have bats!! About 5 years ago, our friends went to turn in for the night and thankfully they turned back the bedding first…a bat had decided to sleep in their bed…not Goldilocks..a bat!!! Maybe if bat houses were hung about they might help with the mosquitos!
August 27th, 2008 18:49
Want bats? Go to the Reef Bay ruins.
Plenty of them there