Mosquito's in the Winter

[K.O.W.]

Hi everyone, just wondering why we've killed about 40-50 mosquitos in our house this Winter ? I googled and read some females kinda go dormant potentially and re-emerge later. What is certain is it started about at the new year. We kill about 1-3 every night and rarely see any before 8pm which is also odd in a way. Things are frozen solid as you all know here in MN and we have no basement. Why didn't all 50 or so emerge on the same day ? Where are they hiding ? There's no known water standing anywhere ? I just killed 2 minutes ago they fly in front of the TV is how I notice them before I go after it ? Thermostat never moves off 67 and it's fairly cool in our place consistently. What do you think and is there anyone who reads this ever dealt with this ? Lived here many years first year it's been like this Asian beetles sure, mosquitos in these numbers no.

[Leech~~]

Sounds a bit fishy! It may be some other kind of gnat or other bug. 

[delcecchi]

Fruit fly?????   

Remember the old saying.... Time flies like an arrow.  Fruit flies like a banana. 

[Rebel SS]

Buy any new houseplants lately? Skeeters haveta hatch from warm standing water....catch one and look at it closely. 

[Dotch]

Just looked back to see when I was still finding mosquitoes with photographic evidence included. Sent these photos to my entomologist buddy and he wondered if I had any screens on my doors and windows. Apparently they can hang on about a month or so indoors. I only saw one or possibly two but they could've been hanging out in the trap on the whirlpool which gets used very infrequently as it gets Mrs. Cheviot waaaaay too frisky. Another possibility for their survival here might be the floor drain in our basement which is unlikely as the water softener dumps in there.

Photos:

The 1st one appears to be a double image. It was actually taken on the bathroom mirror so you're seeing a top and bottom view in the same photo. It took off before I had a chance to schmuck it. Taken Dec. 14.

The next one is from Dec. 22. It was pestering me while I was seated in the oval office. Landed on the edge of the whirlpool bath and it was toast.

Added bonus picture is of a western conifer seedbug attempting to get into my bottle of Beefeater on Dec. 16th. After identifying the culprit, it made perfect sense. 

[Rebel SS]

What?! No fornicating whatchamahoovits like I have down here??!

[K.O.W.]

I think at the age of 46 I can identify easily our state bird as they suck blood out of myself wife and kids and the buzzing sound we hear in our ears when the furnace isn't running, they're mosquitos people. I just killed my daily 2. I honestly don't have the time in my life to log in here fire up a sham of a topic and then giggle like a JH boy seeing his first centerfold. They are mosquitos. I just don't get the trickle of them 2-3 per day/night why don't the whole batch buzz around, why 2-3 per night ? I don't know they're lying dormant someplace I guess.

[Dotch]

Not doubting what you're saying at all. In fact that's why I posted the pics because they were here too. Their reign of terror was relatively short-lived however. I suspect what you have and what I had are northern house mosquitoes. Do you have a crawl space? That's a possibility here if they happened to be in part of it where the temp fluctuates. Because we had lots of rain here last fall (12+" in Sept alone) the higher humidity portion of their survival equation was likely met in the unheated portion of our crawl space. I didn't turn the floor heat on until well into December in the heated portion of it. Some bleed-over heat may have warmed them up enough to break dormancy in the unheated portion. It's tough to tell where they might've come from here so I can only guess not knowing your situation where they might be coming from there.

Suffice it to say, 2016 was a weird weather year and 2017 is following suit. I saw lots of stuff I've never seen insect-wise and otherwise. The pic of the leaf-footed bug by the gin bottle I posted is a case in point. I had a customer dump one off in a Pringle's container in my office this fall. His wife was finding them in the house. It took a while but I correctly ID'ed them with some help from my entomology friend. A few weeks later, they're in my house too! Millions of booklice infesting loads of hay that horse people were ready to dump. Won't hurt the horses or feed value but had never seen or heard of booklice in hay before. Red-bellied snakes crawling around in my office, not once but several times. Been in that office space 15 years and never had snakes before. Just bizarre. 

[K.O.W.]

Battled them all winter to just recently but then last night before dark we were eaten alive but it was worth it out in our yard an hour north of Anoka MN because................we got to watch a massive black bear gorge himself in a combined cornfield for an hour before dark last night. The skeets were very thick last night and they are large ones that must have been dormant until this warm streak hit us.

[Reinhard]

Ya that's some crazy stuff.  hasn't happened to me in our home and we have a pond next to us.  Last year around our house it was almost mosquito free but there were some in the shady areas.  There were years here that they were everywhere, sun or shade.  But in the house never.  But it happens as the case here and it must not be a great feeling at all.  good luck.