What's the temperature where you are???

[007Sean]

Monday: : 42°F, dew point 30°F, humidity 63%, wind NE @ 4mph, clear. High today, predicted to be 87°F.

 

[kikiruru]

Monday 759a 44f42 or 50

 

[Raisin_The_Chicken]

it's finally raining! begone snow! lol

 

[sourland]

54F and cloudy with a high of 57 predicted.

 

[Ponypoor]

66° at 8:30 P.M.

Both of these photos were taken today. You can drive from one location to the other in about an hour and a half.

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Amazing

 

[Ponypoor]

10:34hrs
-4C brrrrr! I prefer yesterday’s 17C!

It will not be very warm today but it is sunny.

 

[Debbie292d]

35F but high of 48F

Lows all week are still below freezing, but soon

 

[Ponypoor]

35F but high of 48F

Lows all week are still below freezing, but soon

Yes soon we will be enjoying mosquitoes and black flies

 

[Debbie292d]

Yes soon we will be enjoying mosquitoes and black flies

I may have mentioned this before, but for the mosquitoes, I have a box of First Saturday's Lime ready to go for hubs to sprinkle. We have a creek down a bank behind our house, and woods between us and the creek. Some areas of the creek are marshy, even have some puddles of sitting water. He sprinkles that FSL along the bank and in the puddles. It won't kill frogs or fish or anything but does kill mosquito larvae.

There is also something called Dunks we bought a couple of years ago on Amazon. Hubby cuts those in half and puts one in a 5-gallon bucket 1/2 full of water. He puts 3 buckets on the bank side of our property up on stumps or boulders so the chickens can't get to them. Those purport to kill larvae too as it draws the female mosquitoes to lay their eggs in there.

We also have a zapper. We need a couple more of those as the chickens love when we dump them, but they are so pricey! Lots of moths too get zapped.

We have noticed a huge reduction here in mosquitos as usually, there are a few weeks you have to be soaked in Cutters or Off or you can't go outside. We'll still get them, but not enough to make it unbearable anymore.

 

[Ponypoor]

I may have mentioned this before, but for the mosquitoes, I have a box of First Saturday's Lime ready to go for hubs to sprinkle. We have a creek down a bank behind our house, and woods between us and the creek. Some areas of the creek are marshy, even have some puddles of sitting water. He sprinkles that FSL along the bank and in the puddles. It won't kill frogs or fish or anything but does kill mosquito larvae.

There is also something called Dunks we bought a couple of years ago on Amazon. Hubby cuts those in half and puts one in a 5-gallon bucket 1/2 full of water. He puts 3 buckets on the bank side of our property up on stumps or boulders so the chickens can't get to them. Those purport to kill larvae too as it draws the female mosquitoes to lay their eggs in there.

We also have a zapper. We need a couple more of those as the chickens love when we dump them, but they are so pricey! Lots of moths too get zapped.

We have noticed a huge reduction here in mosquitos as usually, there are a few weeks you have to be soaked in Cutters or Off or you can't go outside. We'll still get them, but not enough to make it unbearable anymore.

Here, they use a larvicide in the form of a natural parasite found in our waters that kill the larva. Only good in stagnant ponds and bogs, not flowing water, but then again won’t find larva in flowing waters.

Another month the Barn Swallows will return, they will catch various types of flying insects, like mosquitoes and moths, etc.

It’s only -1C so Spring seems far off today!