<blockquote><cite>Posted By: grumpy old man</cite>I saw my first ants on the weekend. Can the skeeters be very far behind? Perhaps this Calgary weather will slow their development.</blockquote>
<blockquote><cite>Posted By: Sputnik</cite><blockquote><cite>Posted By: grumpy old man</cite>I saw my first ants on the weekend. Can the skeeters be very far behind? Perhaps this Calgary weather will slow their development.</blockquote>
Or create more ponds of stagnant water...</blockquote>Nah, our ground is very dry, so it'll just soak it right up!
<blockquote><cite>Posted By: DeanK</cite>but dont all kids wear headphones anyone?</blockquote> pretty much. I wonder if the mosquito sound interferes with the music they listen to, or if they can drown it out.
The cool, dry weather has meant there is relatively little standing water in which to lay eggs. ... Surveillance data indicates low levels of larvae in standing water sites. Officials expect that, within the next seven to 10 days, there will be only a small emergence of spring nuisance mosquitoes. Trap count data can be viewed at the Insect Control website at Winnipeg.ca/bugline. The city is also preparing for a cankerworm control program for boulevard trees and city parks, which will start in late May or early June, weather dependent.
The Insect Control Branch is forecasting a significant cankerworm population in Winnipeg over the next few weeks which will likely have the potential to cause major defoliation of American Elms, Manitoba Maple and Ash trees in many parts of the City where there are large stands of these trees. These populations generally follow a natural five to seven year cycle and have been building up their populations over the past couple of years. Based on previous historical data, the Branch anticipates that this may be the peak of this cycle.
when i was growing up in northern ontario we had an infestation of tent catipillars (which sound like the exact same thing). It was disturbing. they were all over the place and they spun webs, so you couldn't go anywhere near trees. I remember golfing and it looking like the green was moving because there literally was 100's of 1000's of these things on it....the roads were covered in blood.