fly in december...you must be pulling my chain?
 

NEW YORK 12/16/2017

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We have a neighbor who has a heated koi pond and, because of that, I have sometimes seen mosquitoes fly in the middle of winter and then fall dead in the snow.

hmm, what da'ya know?

There are actually plenty of insects around in the winter, flies and mosquitoes included. Maybe it also depends on the climate and severity of winter weather, but back when I was doing my PhD in entomology a colleague ran a multi-year study on mosquito populations in the summer and winter. It was a citizen science project where people sent in their smashed mosquitoes and answered a questionnaire. (she got thousands of them, every day she had a giant mailbag of samples to process...) My colleague found that the dominant mosquito species is different in the winter, and that there are plenty of them around to bite and annoy people!

Lots of flies survive in my greenhouse.

And other creatures. The warmth brings them out.

Yep, I have big blow fly's coming out now. I think I killed 3 yesterday.

...but it is not warm. look out the window that's snow.

---------- Post added at 12:27 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:26 PM ----------

Never heard of a big blow fly nor do I think that I want to. :(

Friend in north Jersey has found,on her dog,ticks that hide under unraked leaves. Near 60 degrees for this coming wkend!

Whoopppeeeee! :drool: :nod: :banana: :dance13: :blowkisses:


Hope that swings up a little farther north. :typing:

p.s. without the flies