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Ro646a
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Feb 24, 2018

Florida "noseeums" distress

This may be an unusual inquiry,
but perhaps someone can provide some advice.
We are finishing a three week stay on Pine Island in Florida. My wife is allergic to the noseeum bites and she has been bitten many times while we have been here. We are scheduled to leave here Sunday and go to Okeechobee for a week, and then on to St. Augustine. If the the bugs are just as bad in those places we are going to cancel outer plans and head home to Michigan on Sunday.
Does anyone know whether or not these bugs are as bad in the rest of Florida as there are Here? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
  • If you are close to salt water in FL you will have 'em. Okeechobee is a tossup but the 'skeeters are big there.

    Better than black flies in the UP eh?
  • No bugs in Michigan or southwestern Ontario either. Right now, at least.

    Good advice re:Arizona. Pretty much anywhere west of the Mississippi has fewer bugs than Florida, even on a bad day. :B
  • 2gypsies wrote:
    You still have time to mosey on over to Arizona. No bugs here. :)

    We've tried Florida and just didn't like it for that reason... too many bugs.

    shhhhh, go north the cold kills bugs ;)
  • You still have time to mosey on over to Arizona. No bugs here. :)

    We've tried Florida and just didn't like it for that reason... too many bugs.

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