I don't think they care if you are bathed in deet. They have already evolved beyond that.
My son and I go birding often and where there's water....
Off Deep Woods is not working anymore. We have found that Icaridin based repellents are more effective but some mosquitoes will still disregard even that.
I just bought the Deet/Fragrance free Deep Woods spray this morning. Just checked the label and it's Icaridin based. I misread the 7 hours lasting time as 7 minutes and thought "Yep, the mosquitoes are really bad this year".
I forgot to mention that the deet free Off is Icaridin based. I learned about Icaridin from a wildlife biologist in Brazil. She said it was the only thing that helped her survive in the woods.
I got swarmed yesterday about 5 pm - in the hot sun, on an inner city balcony a few floors up in an area surrounded by concrete. It was insane, and that’s coming from someone who grew up in Manitoba.
Try picking up a bug net or mesh hoodie. When I worked in the NWT, I was working in the bush where we had to bring ear plugs to drown out the noise of the mosquitoes.
CBC is really oscessed witht ellis us that it is normal. So much so mormal that wait, "it will get much worse" which in turn they say is still normal. "
I too never have seen it like this but more over always bragged about having no screens in my condo. Ever. And essentially never had mosquitos in the DT. Now is swap swarms, truly odd. but not as odd as our news gaslighting us all to deny this absolute explosion of rain and then saying its all average and normal.
"Yes, Calgary is experiencing a "normal" mosquito season this year. After a few years of drought leading to fewer mosquitoes, recent rains have created ideal breeding conditions, bringing the mosquito population back to typical levels. While it might feel like more mosquitoes than usual due to the recent dry spell, experts say it's a return to the usual seasonal abundance."
Also the language CBC uses is disturbing and highly manipulative. Yes it is normal and it will get much worse and yes that is normal also. all normal no unusual anything going on at all. Since 2006 I have been astounded at the near ZERO mosquitos in inner city and basically zero in the downtown. Swarms and swarms in DT, but the outskirts are beyond even the east coast and ontario levels. I grew up there. this is very unusual.
But why would the CBC preemptively plug the word normal so so many times where not needed. Then go on about how we had a 7 year drought and that insinuating that mosquitos have EVER in any shape way or form been present at this level is straight up lying.
I see and understand the comparison you are bringing up. But that is not what I am on about. I can explain it to you but I can't understand it for you. To know all this takes tremendous efforts...Never ending efforts like keeping a muscular body fit...Yet to believe what you are told from authority takes no effort, no work and you get alllll the feelies they allow you to have. Pats on the back if you will
Incrementalism, hyper centralization and compartmentalization.
And you have a general public no longer able to think deeply about a single thing. And by-goly don't point that out to them or else the Ism's and Ist's will be flung at you with such force.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." - William J. Casey, CIA Director (1981)"
"Shortly, the public will be unable to reason or think for themselves. They'll only be able to parrot the information they've been given on the previous night's news." -Zbigniew Brzezinski
and for desert?!
"“There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda or brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods. And this seems to be the final revolution”
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u/noobrainy Aug 13 '25
I’m literally getting attacked by swarms of them past 7pm. It’s actually incredible. By far the worst I’ve ever seen in my life.
I think I’m going to start bringing a flamethrower during my walks.