Iowan experiences the same horror story every summer. You’re out there minding your own business when suddenly you’re attacked out of nowhere! It feels like a giant needle is rammed into your skin. Indeed, it is Iowa’s most hated pest, wildly sucking blood from your forearm like a fat kid sucking a milkshake through a straw.
PestProSearch recently conducted a survey of the “Most Hated Bugs By State”. Not surprising, Iowan’s hatch mosquitoes are the largest of all pests. If you grew up in Iowa or have spent a lot of time here, you know that now is the time to be outside and not be attacked by insects.
Make no mistake, these blood-sucking monsters lurk in the shadows after hibernating over the winter, waiting to reappear when the weather warms up or when they hatch from previously laid eggs in the spring. Generally, mosquito season arrives in Iowa in late April, as soon as the nighttime temperatures rise above 50 degrees for about a week, watch out!
After “Mother Nature” annoyed us with some temperatures in the 60s and 70s, it may be good that they predict cooler temperatures for the rest of April. Maybe that will at least slow down the start of the mosquito season.
Pests.org’s 2021 Midwest Mosquito Forecast said that “according to the National Weather Service, there is a 50 percent chance of a hotter, wetter summer in the Midwest. As a result, expect mosquito populations to follow suit.” “We all know mosquitoes thrive in the heat and in lots of standing water. Even so, Pests.org only predicts” a slightly above average mosquito population. “We’ll take that.
What are the “Most Hated Bugs” in the 50 States? The survey found that Americans in 29 states are freaked out by cockroaches more than any other insect. Bed bugs are hated by 9 states, spiders are most hated in 6 states, and mosquitoes are most despised in 4 states including Kansas, Montana, Pennsylvania, and Iowa.
Courtesy peststrategies.com
Minnesota people like to joke that mosquitoes are their “state bird”. Well, Minnesotans like to think they’re better than us, but we beat them. Once last summer I saw a mosquito this big (how big was it?) Here in Iowa – it landed and picked up a little child like an eagle plunging into the water and carrying a fish away.
Take steps now to protect your property against mosquitoes, such as: B. remove items that collect water, clean out clogged gutters, buy citronella candles, etc., and make sure to stock up on the bug spray (deet, of course). Then get ready to enjoy a mosquito free summer or not. Just be glad cockroaches can’t fly, oh wait, can they? Forget it, I’ll stay inside.
