Hi folks --I generally just avoid places with mosquitoes, but sometimes it's worth making an exception :).The result, though, is that I don't have a lot of experience with the buggers.Are the Yellowstone ones like others I have known, only coming out for a couple hours in the evening? Or are they a bigger deal than that? If I go, I am wondering if I need to make some changes to the van. Screens, for example. And I normally have the door open at dinner time, for convenience and to cool the van off before bedtime. Am I going to end up sharing a bunk with the skeeters if I do that?Thanks a bunch for any advice / stories.

The biggest problem I have had in Wyoming with mosquitos is the little mosquitos can come right through the screens. Then they grow up quickly. They unhook the screens and let the big mosquitos in. Terrible problem. Only solution is to install locks on your window screens.

They are coming out now and will last for about 3-4 weeks tops then they're gone. You will need good repellent and some citronella candles to help keep them away. Don't leave your windows or doors open or they will be inside and eat you alive during the night while you are sleeping. This will be our 4th year camp hosting in YNP and that's the one thing we don't like, but as I said it only last a relatively short time.

WyoTraveler wrote:The biggest problem I have had in Wyoming with mosquitos is the little mosquitos can come right through the screens. Then they grow up quickly. They unhook the screens and let the big mosquitos in. Terrible problem. Only solution is to install locks on your window screens.OK, so did you end up using combination locks or keyed locks ? I would think the keyed lock may not be adequate since they more than likely would find the key. JMO

Yeah, I can't imagine they can turn the dial on a combination lock. No leverage.Thanks, horizon36. So, if I go later, no skeeters?!?

Yellowstone mosquitoes specifics? How about this for specifics.Yesterday at Madison Campground smashed 3 mosquitoes in evening. During the last 7 days smashed only about 10 total.

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OutdoorPhotogra
Explorer
Jun 14, 2015
Naio wrote:
bukhrn wrote:
X-2, where do you go WITHOUT skeeters, I've heard there are some places like that, but have never actually been to one. :h

Most places west of the rockies :B. Houses don't even have window screens or AC in much of the west.

Long as you stay away from lakes and marshes, and camp instead near running water (creeks and rivers) or in the desert, or on the beach, you can be pretty skeeter-free in the west.

Yellowstone has that big lake, and I guess a bunch of other watery stuff...

I saw about 10 mosquitoes per year when I lived in Central CA, but some people still complained. CA couldn't make a puddle if it tried right now. Bet the ground would soak up the water in seconds its so dry. Sad.
bukhrn
Explorer III
Jun 14, 2015
OutdoorPhotographer wrote:
Naio wrote:
bukhrn wrote:
X-2, where do you go WITHOUT skeeters, I've heard there are some places like that, but have never actually been to one. :h

Most places west of the rockies :B. Houses don't even have window screens or AC in much of the west.

Long as you stay away from lakes and marshes, and camp instead near running water (creeks and rivers) or in the desert, or on the beach, you can be pretty skeeter-free in the west.

Yellowstone has that big lake, and I guess a bunch of other watery stuff...

I saw about 10 mosquitoes per year when I lived in Central CA, but some people still complained. CA couldn't make a puddle if it tried right now. Bet the ground would soak up the water in seconds its so dry. Sad.
Texas thought so too, after a 5 year drought, but it didn't soak in as fast as they wanted, it just ran off into floods.
OutdoorPhotogra
Explorer
Jun 14, 2015
That happens in SOCAL with mudslides and local flooding. The West side of the Sierras just doesn't get much rain period. I heard thunder once or twice in five years.

I don't think the Central Valley could ever rain enough to flood. We got 8-10" per year before the drought. Now we were in a flood plain but it was because a major resevoir is on top of a fault line and if the dam broke it would flood the valley.
Free_Range_Huma
Explorer
Jun 19, 2015
WyoTraveler wrote:
The biggest problem I have had in Wyoming with mosquitos is the little mosquitos can come right through the screens. Then they grow up quickly. They unhook the screens and let the big mosquitos in. Terrible problem. Only solution is to install locks on your window screens.

OMG! I was not expecting to be LOL at this thread! Thanks for that.
horizon36
Explorer
Jun 19, 2015
Well, I'm here in Yellowstone and the skeeters are just coming out. It will get really bad in the next 2-3 weeks as they keep coming out. The up side is that they only last 2-3 weeks and then mostly gone. So far I have fed almost a dozen of them and will be setting up my screen room today.
tuna_fisher
Explorer
Jun 24, 2015
bukhrn wrote:
OutdoorPhotographer wrote:
I think it's all relative to where you are from and your tolerance. I grew up in Louisiana and stayed out until dark every day shooting photos last July and don't remember any mosquitos. I just asked my wife and she said, "Oh, yeah, they were bad."

Does that help? :B
X-2, where do you go WITHOUT skeeters, I've heard there are some places like that, but have never actually been to one. :h
None here in Joshua Tree but then they cook in flight in the summer.
pnichols
Explorer II
Jun 25, 2015
No skeeters to speak of here in the S.C. Mountains. It's been that way for around the last 37 years, anyway.

Just -

Earthquakes

Fires

Horse flies

No water

Clean air

Seasonal temperatures between 35 and 85 degrees
Roy_Lynne
Explorer
Jun 25, 2015
If there is one mosquito within 10 miles it will find me, but I read this great article on bug repellent on this months Consumers Report and they had lots of suggestions, one being a fan aimed at the door to keep them out or sitting near a fan to keep them away. The listed a couple of good bug repellents. One was Repel Lemon Eucalyptus Natural and the other was Sawyers Fishermans formula. I haven't tried either, but will next time out.
LenSatic
Explorer
Jun 26, 2015
Truth in Posting: I did not read all of the above posts. That said (if it hasn't been said before), apply high heat to a mosquito bite to eliminate the itching. The heat has to be so hot that you can only endure it a short time. But keep applying it, off and on, for at least a minute. A hot cup of coffee or tea works. We use the reusable hot/cold packs that can be nuked or boiled. It's a one time cure. As far as I know it only works for skeeters, though.

LS

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