Mosquitos in BR are at insane levels

Wasn’t it in the 30s this morning?

They’ve been terrible at night.

Had to run by my moms at 730 this morning
There were HUNDREDS of them on the ceiling of her carport

Not nearly as bad as they were in October.

You don’t say? South LA is basically a huge swamp. Of course there’s going to be a shite ton of mosquitoes. You just gotta learn to live with it.

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It's the crawfish prices.

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In a roundabout way, it could be.

For those who are pretending like this is “normal”, but like they idiotically did during the summer heat wave/drought: yes, we always have mosquitos. No, they are normally not even close to this bad.

One odd thing I’ve noticed that this round is a brown mosquito, like we had growing up, not the newer tiger mosquito that we normally see now.

You're obviously from Texas. We call them "Daddy long legs" on the east side if the state line. Yes, they're out in force.

I find mosquitos become more a problem in south Louisiana during little rain fall or slight droughts. During frequent and heavy rains their breeding locations get washed away.

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mosquito hawks

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I was about to say it's most likely the mosquito hawk (aka crane fly) that everyone is seeing. The drought last summer threw off the typical late summer explosion we see that is typically knocked down by municipal fogging for mosquitos that keeps the population knocked down. Because the drought jacked up their typical cycle they are popping up with the warmer weather we had a few weeks. Just different this year because they aren't coming into the adult stage during peak mosquito season when people are spraying or municipalities are fogging to knock mosquitos and other pests down. They are harmless, just a nuisance. Taurus, Dominion, and Bifen have all been known to kill them if they are too big of a nuisance. They only have a 10-15 day adult cycle, so should see the numbers drop drastically over the next week or so.