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.

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.

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 ;)

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

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?

Noseeums in Fort Myers, Naples, Cedar Key, and other places in FL. They seem to like me and for years I had a bad reaction (itching intolerable and lasting for weeks). Now I avoid being outside early morning and at dusk. This year it seems when I do get bit it only itches for a couple of hours (could I have an immunity now?) We bought a new screen house made by Clam Corporation and since then we are able to sit outside with little bug annoyance.

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JscottSB
Explorer
Nov 18, 2024
I hate that everyone is being attacked by no see-ums. The best prevention for them is OBX Skeeter Beater, it's in a couple stores in Florida but can also be ordered direct. Works like a champ on all insects including biting flies and helps with afterbite soothing. www.obx-skeeterbeater.com
- way2roll
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  Nov 18, 2024
  Not sure if you are aware but you are responding to a post that's 6 years old. While you may actually trying to be helpful, your post seems awful spammy. And you are not allowed to sell anything on this forum.
  - JscottSB
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    Nov 18, 2024
    Oh my bad, saw this post and thought I'd try to help. Remove it if you need to.
    Have a good day.
rockhillmanor
Explorer
Mar 08, 2018
I am highly allergic to noseeums.

I tried everything to get rid of them. They lay in the grass at night. I 'finally' found that if I sprayed the grass around where I was And around and under the MH with Ortho Home Defense Insect Spray, found at Walmart and big box stores.

It was the only thing I found that worked. I sprayed the ground heavily right before I went to bed every night for a day or two and they were long gone and/or all dead. :B

Note: Be sure to buy Ortho Home Defense. Do NOT buy the one called Spectricide. It caused me breathing problems and is harmful around pets.

BTW: come on up to the north central Florida area. Where I am at there aren't even any mosquitoes! Scenery is much nicer and waaay more things to do with all the clear blue springs and rivers. And a mere hour from either coast. IMHO Florida's best kept secret, so shhh don't tell everyone!

There really is more of Florida than the buggy, humid, swamps of the South! :W
Superbee_Jim
Explorer
Mar 02, 2018
azrving wrote:
I would choose fire ants over noseeum. Those are the worst sob I have ever run into. You can research them online but they are common in many tidal areas. We didn't have a problem with them when we stayed inland around Lake City Fl during the winter but I wouldn't be surprised if they were around when it warmed up.

We also ran into them in other coastal swampy areas of the gulf. As mentioned above, if you want to be bug free go out to Az and Socal. I have been going out there the last four winters and have never seen a snake or scorpion. If the temps go up there may be flies. I have spent a week or so on Padre Island and dont remember noseum but it may also depend on the temperatures. Others may be able to tell you more about RGV area. I have had a good number of fire ant bites in Texas but only because of working around my sons property.

The fire ants are avoidable but noseeum are relentless. I would live in an apartment or in a downtown city or move out of the country before I'd live in noseeum areas. Life is too short. I have used clear nail polish on them and it seems to help the itching. Mex said to boil water and wet a q tip and touch the area. God I hate those things. Mosquitoes? Kids stuff.
I will give you my take on no-see-ums. I have a rv lot near Mission, Tx in the RGV and the no-see-ums are the worse I have seen in 11 years coming down. Every year it gets worse. If I try to sit outside on a nice calm day, I can count on 20-25 bites! The last few days have been very windy and it still doesn't stop them. I am at the point of selling our lot and going to AZ next winter. I live in Minnesota, the land of 10,000 mosquitoes, I mean lakes, and I don't have anywhere near the problems with them. We are not in a tidal area and 1 1/2 hours from the Gulf. I have tried all the folk remedies and none work, only slathering on Deet. If it sounds like I detest them, that is correct!:M
John_Joey
Explorer
Feb 27, 2018
2gypsies wrote:
Ro646a wrote:
UPDATE:
We are now in Okeechobee and being eaten alive. We're giving up and heading back home in the AM.

Gosh! That's really a shame to go home so early and you're going to encounter crappy weather conditions and flooded areas. Why not try northern Florida at least or go over the peninsula to Alabama? Or do some of the eastern coastline above Florida.

X2

Going straight back this early IMO is a mistake. Lots to see and enjoy along that I10 corridor area this time of year.
2gypsies1
Explorer III
Feb 27, 2018
Ro646a wrote:
UPDATE:
We are now in Okeechobee and being eaten alive. We're giving up and heading back home in the AM.

Gosh! That's really a shame to go home so early and you're going to encounter crappy weather conditions and flooded areas. Why not try northern Florida at least or go over the peninsula to Alabama? Or do some of the eastern coastline above Florida.
Ro646a
Explorer
Feb 27, 2018
UPDATE:
We are now in Okeechobee and being eaten alive. We're giving up and heading back home in the AM.
Deb_and_Ed_M
Explorer II
Feb 27, 2018
I'm kind of stunned - our condo overlooks the Intracoastal Waterway (Space Coast area) and we've never noticed noseeums? And a couple of weeks ago we camped at Ormond Beach at Tomoka State Park and had no problems there.

Maybe I'm just not tasty?
chuckbear
Explorer
Feb 26, 2018
Ro646a wrote:
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.

Since few of the responses addressed your question, YES, you are going to encounter "noseeum's" in all the places you plan to visit. We have lived throughout Florida for over 20 years, including the places you plan to stop. If the problem is that bad for your wife, heading back north might be a better plan than having her suffer. Chuck
Ivylog
Explorer III
Feb 25, 2018
pawatt wrote:
And here I was led to believe that winter in Florida was winter in Paradise???

It is unless you are close to brackish water mainly at dusk. If you are a couple miles away the NoSeeums are not a problem. Winter is the dry season in southern Fla...less so the further north you go and skitters need standing water so not a problem in towns but can be in rural areas. Again dusk is prime time for them to be a problem.
fchammer1
Explorer
Feb 25, 2018
pawatt wrote:
And here I was led to believe that winter in Florida was winter in Paradise???

Having wintered in the southwestern US, Palm Springs, CA, and the Rio Grand Valley, there are many reasons that I and thousands like me, chose Florida as their ultimate winter destination.

You can lead a horse to water, but...

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