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07-07-2004, 10:04 PM

Mike Patterson wrote:
On Thu, 08 Jul 2004 02:57:24 GMT, wrote:
skeeters fly up to 5 miles, but better is check around the house for anything holding
water like tires, cans, etc. amazing what we leave sitting around holds water and
then mosquitoes. Ingrid

Yep, did a search-n-destroy mission a couple days ago, but the only
standing water I found was full of tadpoles!

Did you check the gutters? A poorly-sloped set of gutters (and there are a lot
of them out there) can hold an amazing amount of stagnant water.