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Boundary Waters Quetico Forum Listening Point - General Discussion Any July Bug Updates? |
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07/09/2017 04:08PM
Just got back from 8 days out of Kawishiwi Lake. The mosquitoes were bad at dusk. Otherwise, only wore bug dope on portages. No black flies, but the ankle biters were just starting to emerge.
"My life has been a series of campfires." Sigurd Olson
07/10/2017 09:05AM
Just returned from the Sawbill area. Mosquitoes came in pretty heavy at dusk and a bit around at dawn, otherwise mostly present but no big deal unless you stood still too long. Found two ticks. Deer flies and other flies around, only a couple bites.
07/10/2017 11:47AM
The mosquitos were getting pretty bad on 7/4 when we came out probably because of all the rain. I don't think there were black flies but I got about 14 bites on each ankle and about that many more on my back, arms and face. I think I got into a chigger nest while wearing footie socks with my dry shoes. I should have stuck with permethrin sprayed crew socks. Still itching on some of the later ones. They are pretty fierce.
"Geography is just physics slowed down, with a couple of trees stuck in it." Terry Pratchett
07/10/2017 11:51AM
On Lac La Croix the past week and the skeeters were only bad at dawn and dusk which is normal. Flies were terrible, especially at the ankles and especially while in the canoe on the water. Nothing a bug net couldn't handle, but we found them especially bad this last week. That being said, LLC was also unusually calm in terms of little breeze to keep bugs away.
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