blog: bloody mosquitos!

[nikos]

sound buzzers work for kids but a small one I had for mosquitos didn't do anything at all

[dunno]

sound buzzers work for kids

17-19kHz from a made in china POS amp works very well on kids that persist on shreaking right outside one's door, It was amusing to watch the parents come to investigate the noise that the "old man" was making, only to hear nothing, *sigh*, the delicious irony.

Karma is indeed newtons third law.

Edit: errmm, I don't know if it's ok to post links to other software, but, Sinegen found below is what I use to generate tone.

http://www.tucows.com/preview/502787

[RightPaddock]

Install screens on doors and windows...

As Europeans have long reserved the right to defenestrate our enemies (and our friends, from time to time), this suggestion can't really apply globally (it's economically and culturally uncouth). I haven't seen a "screen" for 25 years, which, unsurprisingly, was the last time I was in Americae.

NYC DOHMH - Environmental Health - West Nile Virus

I lived in Bologna for a couple years as a student, had a garret above the colonnades, it was the first place I saw screened windows. The issue there wasn't mozzies, it was flies. That's the main issue in Aus - bush flies; small beggars but zillions of them at times - even 20 storeys up in city apartments

RP

[Kilmatead]

Yeah, I was just being "general" - there are always practical considerations as exceptions - though getting planning permission to tack screens onto oddly-shaped medieval portal windows inside escarpment-towns is not the easiest (or best) way to go... and Italy is just littered with architectural inconveniences like that. ("Understatement of the Year")

Beautiful place Bologna, but it's funny how Italians have this "thing" for building in the most unfriendly of places - the failure of Ravenna as a capital of the "Western" Roman Empire (Rome was somewhat "indisposed" at the time) is partially attributed (by Gibbon) as being due to it being built on a swamp. Personally I think that Gibbon was just spoofing vicariously, but having spent more than my fair share of time in Venice studying art-perspective (20 years ago you could audit anything if you were a western foreigner) - and sometimes I wonder what the heck they were thinking. (Well, actually I don't - if you were running from random Huns and lesser-barbarians, a mucky-marshy lagoon seems as good a place as any to hide, the local wildlife will just have to live with it. )

Something about swamps always seems to attract city-builders... like Washington D.C. - again, what the heck were they thinking? The humidity and summertime death from every insect on the planet would make anyone wonder.

(Not that Bologna was built on a swamp, I was just letting my mind go about people adapting to environments... I went to university in Texas and was somewhat disconcerted to see tarantulas "warming themselves" on the heated asphalt while I was taking evening walks. That kind of thing really makes you wonder about the wisdom of using a rolled Tufon bed on the bare floor of a house... and I thought the warning about rattle-snakes coiling under lowered toilet-seats was bad enough... it's funny how humans can both love and hate a place at the same time... flies or no flies... )

Ireland may suffer a climate suitable only for despressives and melancholic loners, but at least it's got the bare-minimum of creepy-crawleys!

[nikos]

I bet if I smuggled some of my rampant 24-hour-a-day-munchers that live till christmas (ie don't mind cold) to ireland, they'd love the wet weather... and there goes your paradise

[Tuxman]

Wouldn't that require them to pass the country borders first? I'd guess the Irish are well-prepared for such attacks.

[Kilmatead]

Like I said, Ireland doesn't really have mosquitoes (well, sure, they exist, but are not as a massive swarming pest from the 9th circle). We more have midges, biting flies, aphids, etc. Maybe it's too windy here for them to breed happily and instead they all just get blown over to England (where they belong!) Prevailing winds are of a Westerly ilk, so we can smell the second-hand cigarette smoke from all those New Yorkers having their lunch-breaks, instead.

[BDev]

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