Phil,
Here in Maine, beginning around May, we get these nasty little things 
called black flies.  I believe that they are like the third plague in 
the bible.  They only die after about three days of 90 degree weather 
and good luck getting that before July in Maine.  Anyway, the 
environmental movement is very powerful out here in Maine so there is 
no spraying allowed.  You just have to live with the things.  The 
mosquitoes hit around June and between them and the black flies, 
sitting outside can be almost impossible in the evening, but, at 
least screens can keep them out of the house, unlike cockroaches that 
seem to get into everything!  GRIN!



At 06:21 PM 3/5/2007, you wrote:
>Kathy,
>
>When I was an assistant pastor in western Colorado, the town of 800 people
>we lived in paid for a spray plane to spray for mosquitoes two or three
>times each summer.  I thought they were bad in Minnesota but western
>Colorado is unbelievable for mosquitoes.  It was so bad, I got so I wouldn't
>work out in the yard between 6 and about 8:30 in the evening hours.  They
>were still bad after that but nothing like they were during feeding time.
>Anyhow, I said all of that to comment on the bug spray the planes used.  It
>would choke a horse.  There ain't nothing like sitting on the couch
>listening to some soft music when all of the sudden, the loudest noise
>you've ever heard passes over your house about 6 inches above your roof, I'm
>kidding, but they do fly very low, and then as the sound of the engine dies
>away, the god awful stink comes rolling through your opened windows.  You
>cough, spit, blow your nose, and the mosquitoes laugh and keep on flying and
>biting because they are used to it.  I always said, the airplane killed more
>mosquitoes with it spinning prop flying low over the town than the bug
>spray.
>
>Phil.