Want to Get Away From It All?

[mlawson71]

any deer flies? those bad boys can chomp out tiny plugs of skin, the bastards. skeeters, the bastards. proper balance of spiders in your realm is a godsend. and a trained jack russell or two for almost everything else.

No, no deer flies. Loads of wasps though. I think there may have been a few nests around. I already had an intense fear and dislike of those critters due to some childhood incidents, so that did not endear them to me at all.

 

[mlawson71]

take me there with you

Haha, aw, it's still a house in the city, just the mountaneous outskirts of it. Plenty of other people around.

 

[Amun Ra]

You just have to keep positive indoor air pressure to keep those bugs out. Might get expensive running the HVAC like that 24/7 though.

 

[mlawson71]

It was a small place, it never occurred to me to run a HVAC in it.

 

[vanzandt]

any deer flies? those bad boys can chomp out tiny plugs of skin, the bastards. skeeters, the bastards. proper balance of spiders in your realm is a godsend. and a trained jack russell or two for almost everything else.

Hang a bunch of dried gourds with holes in them. The Martins will move into them and they will really cut down the mosquitoes, deer flies, and pretty much any other flying pest.

 

[mlawson71]

Martins? Is that a species of birds?

 

[elderado]

Purple martins. I know there's a restaurant nearby that has a big "nest station" not quite like this but I sure didn't know anything more about the birds and appreciate VanZandt's bringing it up!

https://blog.nature.org/science/2016/09/12/purple-martins-the-bird-that-relies-on-human-built-nests/

 

[calvinp239]

Wouldn't mind waking up in paradise every day

 

[cynthiavasquez]

Would kill for one of those. I am a total nature freak.

 

[Banjo]