What's Hawaii like for mosquitos ?
Sep 15, 2009, 12:21 am
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I'll have to say I've never encountered issues on my visits to the Islands... so nothin' like in Alaska 
Granted, now that I have said that, when the plane touches down in OGG in November, I'll get bit in the terminal 
Granted, now that I have said that, when the plane touches down in OGG in November, I'll get bit in the terminal
Sep 15, 2009, 12:50 am
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Sep 15, 2009, 1:19 am
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Pray for Trades
There is a wind component to the mosquito equation, since they (like most flying insects) find it tough to stay aloft and in control in high winds.
Of course what you and I consider a nice trade wind will ground many bugs, so consider that as well.
I find that on moderately windy nights, I can enjoy the breeze in the palms without worrying about donating blood to my flying friends.
Aloha, Ted
Of course what you and I consider a nice trade wind will ground many bugs, so consider that as well.
I find that on moderately windy nights, I can enjoy the breeze in the palms without worrying about donating blood to my flying friends.
Aloha, Ted
Sep 15, 2009, 2:04 am
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but they are weird (Thankfully roaches like snakes are not native to AK
Sep 15, 2009, 8:35 am
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My experience (and others have agreed with me), is that the effects of mosquito bites in Hawaii (or at least on Kauai) don't last more than a couple of hours. The next day, no itch! 
Sep 15, 2009, 9:26 am
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*touch wood* I have yet to see a cane spider anywhere in Hawai'i, and will die happy if I never do.
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I think this might test even you
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Sep 17, 2009, 6:27 am
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How long can they live w/o food or water?
I *may* have found a stow away in my QC2's this evening... something very small and long, about the length of my finger nail... I had been hearing noises of something moving around in the left earcup, and then I felt something on my ear and I used some small scissors to get it out... and washed it down the sink...
Needless to say... I will probably take Bose up on trading them in for the QC15's now...
I *may* have found a stow away in my QC2's this evening... something very small and long, about the length of my finger nail... I had been hearing noises of something moving around in the left earcup, and then I felt something on my ear
and I used some small scissors to get it out... and washed it down the sink...Needless to say... I will probably take Bose up on trading them in for the QC15's now...
Sep 17, 2009, 8:26 am
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How long can they live w/o food or water?
I *may* have found a stow away in my QC2's this evening... something very small and long, about the length of my finger nail... I had been hearing noises of something moving around in the left earcup, and then I felt something on my ear and I used some small scissors to get it out... and washed it down the sink...
Needless to say... I will probably take Bose up on trading them in for the QC15's now...
I *may* have found a stow away in my QC2's this evening... something very small and long, about the length of my finger nail... I had been hearing noises of something moving around in the left earcup, and then I felt something on my ear
and I used some small scissors to get it out... and washed it down the sink...Needless to say... I will probably take Bose up on trading them in for the QC15's now...
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Sep 17, 2009, 9:17 pm
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I grew up in NE-AZ in an area full of centipedes.
Don't remember any longer than 8", but they were pretty common.
They loved fresh dirt, so new homes were full of them for a couple of years.
I remember my first house (that we built in our early 20s), we lived in it as we finished the interior and could hear them in the walls crawling around in the insulation (before we sheetrocked) above our bed at night.
Freaked my ex-wife out to no end.
She had trouble sleeping for the longest time.
Don't remember any longer than 8", but they were pretty common.
They loved fresh dirt, so new homes were full of them for a couple of years.
I remember my first house (that we built in our early 20s), we lived in it as we finished the interior and could hear them in the walls crawling around in the insulation (before we sheetrocked) above our bed at night.
Freaked my ex-wife out to no end.
She had trouble sleeping for the longest time.
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