Top 10 States with the WORST Mosquitoes.

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Top 10 States with the WORST Mosquitoes.
Do you hate mosquitoes? I am sure you said yes. The only people that like those blood suckers are freaks and researchers. The rest of us would be on board with getting rid of every single one on the planet. Side note: There are only two known places on the planet with no mosquitoes: Antarctica and Iceland.
Today we are looking at what places have the biggest problem with mosquitoes. Now I say the problem with mosquitoes instead of most mosquitoes because it is hard to figure out how many there are. Those little airmobile vampires refuse to line up and be counted. So we looked at what places have the most species of mosquitoes and how many Google searches for mosquitoes.
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@ander2317 Жыл бұрын

As a Minnesotan, I am both surprised and offended that our state did not end up on this list. We don’t call the mosquito our state bird for nothing 😂

@ThePoodleEnthusiast Жыл бұрын

Your probably 11th

@chief3619 Жыл бұрын

Yep. Come up to the 10,000 lakes and don’t put on deep woods. You’ll have a good time. Trust me.

@alec6948 Жыл бұрын

Every state with mosquitos says this 🙄

@ThePoodleEnthusiast Жыл бұрын

@@alec6948 because there’s so much mosquitoes everywhere that a non top 10 complains about it alot

@xman777b 11 ай бұрын

probably because the content creator doesn't know what they're talking about. If Wisconsin isn't on the list, that seals it

@BNSF1458 Жыл бұрын

Minnesota is AWFUL this year. There's entire clouds that swarm me every time I go outside.

@HopalongGinsberg Жыл бұрын

I hope you'll now do the states with the fewest mosquitos, please.

@kristins9456 Жыл бұрын

Absolutely shocked Minnesota and Wisconsin are not on here. Only reason I can surmise, is that no one Googles mosquitoes - it's just something you know will be bad, and you deal with it. There are actually some weather reports in WI that include the mosquito forecast. No lie. And fwiw - Wisconsin has 56 varieties of mosquitoes. Edit: I was entertained. 🙂

@livinginthepines Жыл бұрын

Minnesotan here. I think we just get use to it and ignore it, if it really is that bad. It's also in spring that mosquitoes & ticks are the worse. They don't really bug me too much once summer comes. Or maybe they just don't like my blood/scent much lol.

@seameology Жыл бұрын

Northern Minnesota here. Also, we don't have any in the winter so...

@ThaiThom Жыл бұрын

Sorry but MN doesn't have anything on LA - or the south in general - when it comes to mosquitoes. Y'all got so much winter up there - 7 months of it. That only leaves 5 for mosquitoes to get bloodsucking. States like LA don't even get snow, or "winter."

@larryh7202 Жыл бұрын

@@ThaiThom Mosquitoes are so bad in Northern Minnesota they make moose go crazy

@AffablyAndrew Жыл бұрын

I'm in WI and I'm surprised it didn't make the list. Growing up we couldn't go outside in July because you could literally see like a cloud of mosquitos coming your way. We have sooo many lakes in MN and WI and just stagnant water its a breeding ground.

@reptiledysfunction5512 Жыл бұрын

I have been all over this country, out in the woods during mosquito season. The southern states are indeed bad for mosquitos. But the worst, by far, was northern Wisconsin during early June. Unbelievable. I'd say second place is Alaska.

@user-zt9ne3zc3s Жыл бұрын

I am in the Oneida County area and Saturday was horrible when I went to play some disc golf. Without some "juice" to spray all over my body, it would have been over for me after the front-nine!! Lol's

@johnfrakes4746 11 ай бұрын

I'll second that! Spray? You might as well wear a bee keepers outfit. LOL. Other than this, I love Wisconsin.

@reptiledysfunction5512 11 ай бұрын

@@johnfrakes4746 I loved Wisconsin! But the skeeters were terrible.

@annlavine3576 Жыл бұрын

hate mosquitos and fleas and roaches

@vivi_75 Жыл бұрын

Roaches are the worst, even here in Florida we get the Flying ones

@Shannonbarnesdr1 Жыл бұрын

@@vivi_75 im in vero beach, i also used to live in Jupiter as well as palm beach gardens, and they were not near as bad as the more central and swamp regions of the state. and alaska they are relentless there same for vermont when that snow melts and you have all those stagnant puddles.

@lechatbotte. Жыл бұрын

@@vivi_75 same in the desert in Cali they call them date beetles like florida calls them palmetto bugs lol

@PomegranatesWeather Жыл бұрын

Nah,flying roaches are satanic 😂😂😂😂😂

@lindajacquot5391 Жыл бұрын

Add ticks and snakes to that list!

@pdxmtngoat Жыл бұрын

Great video Mr. Briggs. I can confirm about Alaska. I worked/lived there for a summer. Hordes of mosuitoes can darken the sky. They are loud too.

@TerryLee04950 Жыл бұрын

You got that right. The state bird. They stop at all military bases to refuel, before they attack. I lived in Alaska for 18 years.

@smeagle3295 Жыл бұрын

⁠@@TerryLee04950 They are bad enough in Alaska that my Sergeant told me about them despite the fact that we were mosquito free in Phoenix at the time, lol.

@richardstaggs951 Жыл бұрын

I grew up in Arkansas and woke up one night with 2 mosquitoes were at the foot of the bed and were discussing weather to eat me there or take me with them.

@jebaker2 Жыл бұрын

Ha ha ha! Now there’s a topic I didn’t expect - but love!

@Original-Juice Жыл бұрын

Someone once told me that in the short span of time that is actually 'Summer' in Minnesota...the State Bird is officially the Mosquito

@marsgal42 Жыл бұрын

I too immediately thought of Minnesota. On first visit to the State of Swamps and Bugs I got off the plane in Orlando and wondered "how do they control the mosquitos here?"

@smeagle3295 Жыл бұрын

We spray. Trucks drive around at night and fog the area (keeps em in check, but kills all fireflies too).

@franzgeil422 Жыл бұрын

Wow Briggsy, I really thought Minnesota was going to be number one. I can speak from experience and I've had rivers of blood STREAMING down both legs, I got bit up so bad. And Alabama with 79.2 degree average Temps in the summer....I wish it was that cool when I was in the Army at Fort McClellan for basic back in 84! Great video!

@theguru9911 Жыл бұрын

I’m born and raised in Lake Charles, Louisiana and seeing the truck come a few times a week to spray down my street is a memory of my childhood

@Shannonbarnesdr1 Жыл бұрын

the deet truck hell yeah !

@NOLAgenX Жыл бұрын

We still have them come every couple evenings over here in the Northshore area of Louisiana, hitting all the drainage ditches

@tomfields3682 Жыл бұрын

I remember those trucks in Northern NY

@johnfrakes4746 Жыл бұрын

I've been to the Black Hills many times, and don't remember ever encountering a Mosquito. Recently in Wisconsin, I encountered droves and droves of them. We have our fair share here in Iowa, but the latter was on whole different level from my experience.

@meedwards5 Жыл бұрын

East side of SD is very wet and mosquito-y

@charlesthrush8134 Жыл бұрын

Pierre South Dakota had the worst mosquitoes I’ve ever encountered, my leg had probably 50 bites after about 20 minutes walking by the River

@bradjbourgeois73 Жыл бұрын

I lived near Rapid City when I was in the Air Force in the early 90's and I can't recall seeing a single mosquito the entire time! Of course, coming from southeast Louisiana and pretty much living next to a swamp helped to form my perspective. LOL.

@653j521 Жыл бұрын

@@charlesthrush8134 They must not have sprayed that day. They spray often. A walk at night can be like a sci fi adventure dodging the big and little trucks (little for Hilger Gulch Park), I have heard.

@ca724 Жыл бұрын

please do a video about NORTHERN CALIFORNIA VS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

@timothyforsythe3155 Жыл бұрын

Fresh water doesn't necessarily breed mosquitoes. It is the stagnant water that is the problem.

@swinde Жыл бұрын

The water only needs to be still. Of course this is more likely in smaller bodies of water.

@thomasgrabkowski8283 Жыл бұрын

@@swinde And a place with lots of lakes, swamps or ponds

@AlaskaAdVANtures Жыл бұрын

I’ve lived in the south most of my life. I now live in Alaska. The mosquitos here are worse than I ever experience in Florida. Even in the Everglades. In the interior of Alaska they are MUCH worse than all the coastal towns mentioned in this video. They bite you here and you immediately swell up. The old joke here is the mosquito is the actual state bird

@smeagle3295 Жыл бұрын

The state bird, lol!

@micahgelfand8282 Жыл бұрын

Lol yeah it's very true

@smscraig Жыл бұрын

Yes!!! I agree.

@raygentry3133 Жыл бұрын

Totally agree with you. I worked one summer in Alaska, and I was absolutely miserable. The mosquitos were everywhere. They were in all the buildings I worked in, and in the trailer I stayed in. There was no effort to try to control the mosquito population, people just put up with it. Had I known the mosquitos were that bad in AK, I would have never took the job!

@TerryLee04950 11 ай бұрын

Manley Hot Springs and Rampart area for me. I had to bulldoze a landing strip just for the mosquitos. Every night I went out to the airfield skeeter shooting.

@garyglenn5233 Жыл бұрын

I don't know if those things in Louisiana are really mosquitoes. More like hummingbirds that drink blood. The last time I was there I could actually hear them flying. They're so big that I got bit through a denim jacket. I didn't even think it was possible for a skeeter to be able to stab through denim, but man was I wrong. I can't even remember where I was the first time it happened but I think it was in Baton Rouge. We stopped to fill up the ol Freightliner and while I was leaning up against the truck drinking a cup of coffee I could hear something that sounded like a little hummingbird flying around and the next thing I knew a skeeter about 2" long had landed on my arm and stabbed through a denim jacket and was munching away. It got a good hard slap and that only stunned it so I stomped it flat with the heel of my boot. That took care of that one but it had a lot of friends. Visiting and dropping loads in Louisiana is bad enough but I don't know how anybody lives there without a lot of spare blood and a transfusion kit.

@seanchristophersynthesizer6999 Жыл бұрын

I grew up in SoCal and Arizona, so in 1986 when I went to Basic Training in Missouri I experienced my first hatred for mosquitos. One of my buddies from Alabama calls them "Skeeters". LOL Later in my Army days I was stationed at Ft. Stewart, GA and absolutely hated those Skeeters on a daily basis.

@lockdot2 Жыл бұрын

Thanks! I didn't even know you could rank states by mosquitoes. That's pretty awesome that is possible!

@infoscholar5221 Жыл бұрын

One important factor you might have included, Mr. Briggs, is the relative humidity. Mosquitos thrive in the humid and swampy areas. I've lived my life, mostly, in Alabama and Louisiana, with briefer intervals in Virginia and Chicago; and I can tell you, where the sweat is dripping off your nose, the skeeter is your constant companion.

@angeldetierra3855 Жыл бұрын

► 10. South Carolina 09. Alabama & Mississippi 08. Georgia 07. Alaska 06. Michigan 05. Texas 04. New York 03. South Dakota 02. Florida 01. Louisiana

@carmenmariacortesmarin2664 Жыл бұрын

Thank you.

@JZT-JZT Жыл бұрын

Thanks

@ThePoodleEnthusiast Жыл бұрын

i was waiting to see texas on that list edit: pueto rico would get number 1 if it was a state by far

@jacktough Жыл бұрын

Missouri would like a word...

@asafaust8869 Жыл бұрын

You are right about Mississippi. Large, hungry mosquitos made it hard to enjoy evenings outdoors. 😮

@sc100ott Жыл бұрын

Love the “Google search” data point! Very scientific. 😂.

@jasonknight5863 Жыл бұрын

In general the most that I’ve experienced being in 46 states. Definitely would be Minnesota being that there are over 15,000 lakes. Even though it’s known as the “ Land of 10,000 Lakes” which isn’t actually the truth. Lakes everywhere and when we lived in the suburbs we had to spray for Mosquitoes 🦟 and ticks ( lots of Deer in that state) every 2 weeks. They would start coming back after only 1 week. If the company didn’t do the center of our yard and only the perimeter of the yard they would come back even earlier. They tried to charge us more for that . 😂

@TypingChimp1 Жыл бұрын

I'm from Minnesota and have lived in Florida and spent time in Louisiana, and I really thought Minnesota would have been #1. Minnesota is much worse than South Dakota, and it's not even close.

@slotitup5039 Жыл бұрын

@@TypingChimp1 I lived in MN and its basically the state bird its so bad

@discocorco Жыл бұрын

I'm from Wisconsin, and I really don't like to give Minnesota much credit for anything. While I have traveled many times to South Dakota, Michigan and Florida, I can't say I ever bothered to buy bug spray while visiting. However, if I get within 30 miles of the Minnesota border between April 1-Oct. 31 I take a bath in Off once every two hours if outside. The western and northern Wisconsin mosquitoes are as numerous as Minnesota's however in Minnesota, those things are 8 times larger. It's probably from sucking all that Viking/Scandinavian blood over the past centuries.

@smeagle3295 Жыл бұрын

Don’t go to Alaska. Their running joke is that the state bird is a mosquito

@jasonknight5863 Жыл бұрын

@@discocorco couldn’t agree with you more. I lived in Minnesota for 20 plus years and thought it was normal to have to bath yourself in “OFF” right before going outside in the garage before I started yard work. Now it’s all a bad distant memory that we moved to Central Florida. They are simply very little compared to how bad they were in Minnesota. This was the twin cities suburbs. They were worse up north or down south. Here they they just seem to come out after dark but about 90 % less in numbers. What I don’t miss is having to check out Dog for ticks every time we let him out in the yard. Here in Orlando we never have to. No deers = No ticks. Every Deer 🦌 contains over 1 million ticks on average. Mosquitos were never that bad in Wisconsin when I visited. Up north they were probably worse.

@darkpaw1522 Жыл бұрын

They key isn’t number of misquotes, but predators. I lived in Okinawa, Japan, Summer year round. I lived there for two years, and I was only but once. They took care of the lizards, giant spiders, and bats that inhabit the island.

@texasflood1295 Жыл бұрын

I was living in Corpus Christi Texas when a tropical storm came through with about 15 inches of rain over 2 days. For about two weeks afterward, when retrieving the morning newspaper at 6 AM, I had to run to the end of the driveway and back. It was too dangerous to walk.

@joshuasmith6346 8 ай бұрын

I was in South Carolina one week to visit my aunt and chewed up

@donwise8767 Жыл бұрын

You missed a state that should have been on the list: Minnesota. Thousands of lakes. Check it out.

@MerynMTG Жыл бұрын

This is a list ive been waiting for. Mosquitoes are my most hated thing in the world. I would love to live in Iceland because theres no mosquitoes.

@nv_spartan1771 Жыл бұрын

In Michigan's UP they pick you up and carry you away.

@thepatriot47 Жыл бұрын

Naw only in ohio

@mikemarch5480 Жыл бұрын

I've lived in both Florida and Louisiana, and the size of skeeter difference is HUGE!! I remember after huricane Lily came through Louisiana, I will never forget the skeeters after that (and the cottonmouths). I would go head to toe with DEET to go outside to play with the dogs. The dogs would be covered...COVERED by them, I could feel them bouncing off of me. They are big, they are healthy and they suck! Florida had skeeters as well, but wimpy ones compared to Louisiana.

@Booz2020 Жыл бұрын

Never Say NEVER 😎 Justin Bieber

@milanaleksic8979 Жыл бұрын

Poor doggos

@AlvinSeville1 Жыл бұрын

It's 'cause Lake Pontchartrain

@guruofendtimes819 Жыл бұрын

size don't matter

@drew311stylee Жыл бұрын

I've lived in Florida and Louisiana too, and currently live in New Orleans. It's insane how bad they are in the summer (which lasts for 10 months annually).

@tonykeltsflorida Жыл бұрын

We live in the Ocala, Florida area. We have a big high powered fan for our car port area to keep the mosquitoes away from the side door and outside table. The fan is on a solar charger.

@johnhartley4712 Жыл бұрын

I live in north Ocala out on 441 no real problem with mosquitoes here but im not around any water either mostly just horse and cow fields

@tonykeltsflorida Жыл бұрын

@@johnhartley4712 We are by 35th street and 25th ave. Trees and rain here. When the bugs come out, the fan sends them away.

@johnhartley4712 Жыл бұрын

@Tony Kelts I need to look into one to put above my back door we get all kinds of beetles and moths at night you can't open the back door without a few making their way into the house

@donalddowning4108 Жыл бұрын

I’ve lived in a few southern states, south Louisiana and eastern Texas being two of those, but the worst mosquito infestation I’ve ever had was in California. I worked at a Navy air base in Ventura County that was built on a wetland area and the mosquitoes were so bad we sometimes had to stop people from working on aircraft due to safety concerns. They weren’t as huge as the ones in New Orleans but the California mosquitoes attacked in squadrons and they sucked insect repellents like it was mosquito beer.

@el.asesino.rd. Жыл бұрын

Mosquitoe gang

@ShaeNik Жыл бұрын

Now that's scary 😳😨

@JongminJacksonBaek1987 Жыл бұрын

Dang!!! 🤙😎

@SA-hz1rs 11 ай бұрын

florida is a gazillion times worse

@scrapiron 11 ай бұрын

I live in Los Angeles's country and the fairly new Asian mosquito is harder to see, more wary and more day time bitter. This new mosquito is faster making it harder to kill with hands and they like to bite ankle and elbow areas for some reason, maybe more defensive for the bug.

@dennisw.truman3325 Жыл бұрын

Good evening Briggs! Sorry I fell asleep the first time thru so I had to rewatch it again 😂. Have a great day! 🎚️🇺🇸🪖👮‍♂️

@jackhackett80 Жыл бұрын

I live in Illinois, and mosquitos can be bad... but I am surprised to not see Minnesota on the list!

@aaronhow2568 Жыл бұрын

Great info on this one, Briggs! :)

@billy-bo_ Жыл бұрын

Nice video, sir! 😉

@ilovetotri23 Жыл бұрын

You had me scratching my head about the Mississippi flowing through South Dakota. Great video Briggs! Tons of surprises, but it all makes sense when you hear the data.

@athos1974 Жыл бұрын

Have you been to Maine? Mosquitoes have got nothing on Black Flies. Those things are vicious. I went to Maine on a vacation and got eaten alive up in the mountains.😢 Don't think I will visit Maine again.

@jake.rollason Жыл бұрын

Hi, love your channel 🥰

@WorldAccordingToBriggs Жыл бұрын

Thanks

@TheRockInnRobin Жыл бұрын

Awesome thank you!!!! ❤

@EricDaMAJ Жыл бұрын

The worst mosquitos I suffered were at Fort Lewis, Washington at night. I work bug repellant and a mosquito net hat. I also had a small radio with headphones to listen to tunes while I fell asleep. _I could hear the little bastards' hum over the music bouncing off the netting trying to get to me._

@feliciasampson8032 Жыл бұрын

Come to think of that, my roommate and I had mosquito netting in our adjoining rooms in Japan. We lived pretty close to a pond, and summers were "mushi atsui" - hot and humid!

@widespreadcranic Жыл бұрын

I'm a life long Floridian but our mosquitoes ain't nothing compared to the mosquitoes in Alaska. The mosquitoes in Alaska are so big and nasty, when they land on you they will snort the bug spray off of your body as if it was cocaine. True story, i swear its true!

@wandac396 Жыл бұрын

😂😂😂

@sandyclaflin2844 Жыл бұрын

I find it ironic on the day I watched this video, I talked to someone about how I would have to deal with mosquitoes if I move to North Dakota. I live in the Seattle area, and I haven't been bitten in years. Thank you for the reminder.

@micahgelfand8282 Жыл бұрын

Yeah thankfully not too many here in the PNW

@feliciasampson8032 Жыл бұрын

Seattle? I envy you! Lived in PO. Want to move back!

@the80slivehere Жыл бұрын

BBBZZZZZ. I live in the Sunshine State. I feel for the settlers who came here before A/C, bug control and pool cages. This video made me itchy. 😃. - Heather

@stevemoore9951 Жыл бұрын

Greetings from the PPRC great video as always.🇺🇸🍺🍿

@robertcsmith7773 Жыл бұрын

Fun? Video. Thanks for getting me itching! Seriously, I love your videos:). Given they have more standing water than about anywhere, the only reason Minnesota doesn’t rank higher is probably because the cold weather sets in earlier. I have lived all over the country, and Minnesota had the worst problem - at least in the summer. The black flies bite even worse, however. The good news: the U.S. doesn’t rank at all internationally (think Malaysia,etc). Cheers to you!

@amym.694 Жыл бұрын

Try the hot spoon remedy. The heat from the spoon breaks up the proteins that cause the itching.

@accessdenied4711 Жыл бұрын

Very unexpected video but great information. Thank you.

@charsonjonesburn6401 Жыл бұрын

Beaumont, Texas native here! Our county (Jefferson County) flies planes at dawn and dusk to spray Malathion spray to control the Rice field, Salt Marsh, Asian Tiger, Culex, and other mosquitos. we also have trucks the drive around our neighborhood to spray a fog to control these. We definitely have a few mosquitos.

@JenniferPearsonJP7 Жыл бұрын

I currently live in NE Alabama but grew up in MI. MI has a far denser concentration of mosquitoes compared to anywhere else I've lived (with the exception of the top of the Beartooth Mtns in MT). Where I live in AL, the mosquito situation is low to moderate. Easily tolerable. And when bitten they hardly itch.

@chuck9380 Жыл бұрын

I live in Georgia but I stationed in Louisiana & Mississippi and the mosquitoes were so bad in both states they would bite us thru our dress white uniforms. The base would have a truck spray for mosquitoes 4 days a weeks. So I’m assuming Mississippi and Louisiana are definitely on this list.

@MaxLovesNascarOfficial Жыл бұрын

Hey, just to let you know, you spelled “state,” “sate”. Also such a random subject 😂

@gilbertopatino2616 Жыл бұрын

😆👍😲

@PrinzII Жыл бұрын

I've been in both Alabama and Mississippi the damn skeeters are huge. I nicknamed them swamp bees because they are so busy hovering over you to "pollinate".

@Austinite333 Жыл бұрын

How could Massachusetts not be on this list? I am originally from Southeastern MA and you cannot stay outside in the warm months as you would literally be swarmed, buzzed an eaten. Here in the Austin Texas area the mosquitoes are wimps in comparison.

@YoungGandalf2325 Жыл бұрын

I think anyone you ask will tell you that their state has the biggest mosquito problem. They're annoying no matter where you live.

@franklatham9403 Жыл бұрын

Alaskan problem is the tundra. It’s like a stagnant wet sponge in the summer…and it IS nasty in the north because of the tundra. I had military life support for this issue while stationed there in the early 70’s.

@bigpasty1582 Жыл бұрын

I live about 10 miles south of lake superior in northern Wisconsin and we seem to have an unusually high number of mosquitoes this spring

@justincase2830 Жыл бұрын

Record setting snow fall in Duluth. Snow=water=ponding=breeding habitate.

@jlpack62 Жыл бұрын

The worst that I've experienced is the Midwest. Indiana, Illinois, & Wisconsin are just horrible.

@bukboefidun9096 Жыл бұрын

Once in the high country of Yosemite just after the road to Tioga Pass had been opened... we stopped to take pictures. Seemed we were the first fresh blood of the season, got bitten to death in seconds. Ditto in Wyoming and Bay of Fundy in New Brunswick.

@KnightRetlaw Жыл бұрын

I live in Houston and it's like a horde of zombies when it comes to those blood suckers. Gawd dang!!

@kpec3 Жыл бұрын

After I lost 100 lbs, I stopped getting mosquito bites. They liked me when I was overweight probably because of a different body odor I had when I ate junk. They are attracted to you if you eat sugar, pork, fast food, deep fried, chips, regular sodas.

@JSFGuy Жыл бұрын

It's here, let's check it out.

@Fly420 Жыл бұрын

In Minnesota they have 2 seasons: shovel and swat. And the species are Large! I never believed the stories about babies being carried off until I saw a skeeter bend over to bite a turkey. Now I live in Springfield,MO. A little better for skeeters but we have more ticks and chiggers.

@bigcahuna42366 Жыл бұрын

About New York, well, maybe. I've lived in the Rochester area for 43 years and our mosquito season runs from early May until late September. Outside of that, the frosty nights in October pretty much kill most, if not all the eggs. The mosquito population in western NY truly depends on how much rain we receive in the summer and not so much the bodies of water. If we are in a mild drought during the hotter months (which has been a noticeable trend for the past decade or so), the mosquitoes cannot survive well and leave us alone for the most part. The northern part of NY does get more mosquitoes mainly due to the thicker forests and lakes. I would think that a state like Maine would have more than New York. Maine is heavily wooded, a very large part of the state is not inhabited, and Maine contains a ton of ponds, lakes, and streams spread evenly throughout the state. Traditionally their summers aren't that dry either.

@bobwallace9814 Жыл бұрын

A lot depends if you are one of those that mosquitos are attracted to your odor and especially if you are allergic to bites.

@laprepper Жыл бұрын

Odor and apparently blood type too! They fucking love me. If there is one on my block it will find me😂😂 but my mosquitojitsu is black belt level 😂

@Vic-ok2pp Жыл бұрын

Great show. How about states with ticks? Hunting in Virginia ticks were everywhere.

@vickygray4268 Жыл бұрын

I lived in Louisana and never got bit because they sprayed the neighborhoods.

@hurricanekate6839 Жыл бұрын

I was surprised that Maine didn't make the list. We have a horrendous black fly and mosquito problem up here. In fact the first time I heard that "mosquito is the state bird" joke was when I first moved here. But it's still the best place to live IMHO. And I know about SC insect life too; I have family there and have visited in summer. I thought the humidity was worse than the bugs. You could almost wring out the air! Thank you for another great video.

@bigguydiy2184 Жыл бұрын

I vacation lot in ME from Rangeley to Millinocket and it's the only place where I have to wear a head net to go for a simple walk. The swarms or clouds of them in Millinocket are a site to be seen. They even drive the mosquito eating birds into hiding.

@RobertSmith-km6gi Жыл бұрын

I was also surprised. I live in NC now and have very few in my area here but I lived in York County for 35 years and open areas were fine but as soon as you entered the woods you were inundated with them. That’s not to also mention the horse flies, deer flies, black flies, and ticks. I’d still be there but I got too old and unhealthy to cope with the winters.

@bigcahuna42366 Жыл бұрын

I agree, Maine's problem with mosquitoes is pretty bad in the summer. I used to go there most summers when my grandparents lived there in the 80s and 90s, and the heavily wooded pine tree forests, tons of lakes, ponds, and rivers, and slightly humid air made a perfect breeding ground for their species.

@philsmith2444 Жыл бұрын

Come to Maine between May & August, that’s all I have to say. I’ve been stationed in or spent time in most of the southern states and it’s no comparison. The only way it’s worse down there is they’re around longer. Plus, we also have black flies and deer flies, which I never saw down there.

@natef1504 Жыл бұрын

Haven’t watched the video yet but Minnesota immediately came to mind.

@CockpitScenes Жыл бұрын

LOL - I live in South Florida, and I can't remember the last time I saw a Mosquito. I take a walk every evening, and I have never seen a Mosquito - not one.

@1_lens_view Жыл бұрын

Grew up in Minnesota. I’ve never experienced skeeters anywhere else like what I experienced there. The South doesn’t even come close.

@timroot4207 Жыл бұрын

Thank you !

@TheMacPherson Жыл бұрын

I’ve been in every state east of the Mississippi, and most of the inland western states. That said, I can guarantee both Maine and MN are much worse than most of the states mentioned. MN has the most lakes and the largest amount of peat bogs in the US (save Alaska), we have way more mosquitos than TX or SD

@72PRODIGALSON Жыл бұрын

Air Mobile Vampires! Lmmfao! Well done, Briggs!

@hannahviolette4553 Жыл бұрын

Okay...I just can't believe that Maine isn't on this list...my husband is scarred up one arm and down the other from a summer in Northern Maine...

@bjs301 Жыл бұрын

The southern states were no brainers, but I wasn't at all surprised to see New York and Michigan on the list. I fished that part of the country and Canada a lot when I was young, and the mosquitos (and black flies) are enormous. I swear the swarms are also bigger than they are down south.

@hiphoppeep Жыл бұрын

Vermonter here. I second the black flies lol

@joem3502 Жыл бұрын

How could Minnesota not make this list? Trying being in the BWCA in July.

@nancybode6159 Жыл бұрын

South Dakota has cattail marshes all over the eastern end of the state. They also have a lot of abandoned tires laying about, hidden in tall weeds. This state is freakin' mosquito heaven.

@ogjk Жыл бұрын

Lived in Lake Charles Louisiana and never had any major issues with mosquitoes and never heard any of the people that have lived there longer complain about them either. Not a major issue in Southwest part of the state must be in other parts.

@Ayaan1386 Жыл бұрын

Swamp areas

@jasonknight5863 Жыл бұрын

Lakes are just as bad.

@Ayaan1386 Жыл бұрын

@@jasonknight5863 agreed

@tedgemberling2359 Жыл бұрын

This is one of the few of your videos where I actually predicted number 1 correctly! I had quite an experience with Louisiana mosquitoes maybe 10 years ago. I was driving down to the town of Venice in Plaquemines Parish south of New Orleans. On the way back I noticed a sign for historic Fort Jackson. I stopped at the parking lot. I noticed a sign said it was closed because of Hurricane Katrina damage. But I saw that there was an interesting looking viewpoint for the Mississippi, so I decided to walk over there. As I was getting close I saw a stagnant pool of water, and suddenly I was attacked by about 50 mosquitoes! I had to get in my car to escape, and even then there were still one or two on me. Fortunately they weren't infected with anything. I didn't get sick. But I emailed the park and said they should put up a mosquito warning sign.

@jenniferryersejones9876 Жыл бұрын

Thanks, Briggs!

@heatherr0420 Жыл бұрын

I'm surprised New Jersey didn't make the list!! I bet so, if you did a tick-related list, New Jersey would either be at the top or pretty close

@peglegpete6656 11 ай бұрын

Thank you for your posts, you have one of the few channels I click like before I watch it, I know it’s going to be good. Sadly I am 83 so my likes will only go on a few more years.

@NanaPiper Жыл бұрын

June 1982 my family brought us kids to this place called Elmers Island over in Grand Isle, LA. It was so nice until it turned dark. Long story short it was mosquito hell. Never seen a swarm again like it.😮

@chrisnemec5644 Жыл бұрын

Not surprised about #1. The times I was in the state, I ended up dousing myself in off and still got several bites. As a Texan, I have gone about two weeks at most here without a mosquito bite.

@robertrohde4579 Жыл бұрын

I have actually seen two mosquitoes already this year. Some years I don't see two mosquitoes in an entire summer. It is so nice living on a hill at 8400 feet in Colorado. I spent 28 years in Illinois, and nothing could get me to ever move back there!

@robertrohde4579 Жыл бұрын

Already a third! It isn't even monsoon season.

@casualeann Жыл бұрын

You can’t say Illinois without annoy. 😂

@majimespirit8421 Жыл бұрын

Minnesotans jokingly state that the mosquito is the state bird. It’s not easy to enjoy the outdoors when your dripping in extra strong deet

@FronosElectronics Жыл бұрын

quick correction , the river that flows through south dakota is the missouri river.

@pdxcalibur Жыл бұрын

Massachusetts has tons of mosquitos near the coast. The Boston Globe once had an article that states that Newbury, Massachusetts was the worst place in the USA for mosquitos. When I was young there would be clouds of the buggers over the puddles at dusk. A ot of people us bug zappers, and they were zapping constantly at night.

@seanchristophersynthesizer6999 Жыл бұрын

"Do you hate mosquitos?" Does someone actually LIKE mosquitos? LOL Great video as always. :)

@Rhaspun Жыл бұрын

I think you should do one about which state has the best fishing. I'm sure you'll get a lot of truthful comments from that.

@noelleagape8684 Жыл бұрын

When I was 16 I lived in Charleston, S.C. ( for a brief period) and at night in the summer, if I stepped outside to talk to friends - those suckers would even bite through my jeans and left welts on my butt!

@herschelwright4663 Жыл бұрын

Minnesota would probably reach #11 on this list with it’s 10,000 lakes.

@lycanmistress2021 Жыл бұрын

Could you do a video about tiny house communities?

@TheDisneylover23 Жыл бұрын

I love this video and you did surprise me. I grew up in MA, so we had some, but it wasn't the Amazon Jungle. I lived in CT for a while and it was the same there. Both could get bad around the rivers, don't get me wrong. But when I moved to Tampa Bay, we invented "The Great Mosquito Hunt" because it was so bad. Every night we would prowl my kids room and our apartment for mosquitoes that got in. There were a lot and my OCD demanded they all be executed before bed. There were a couple years they were Amazon Jungle bad! I've been on the East coast in Palm Beach county for a few years now, and it's honestly not been bad. I feel a good hurricane season coming this year, so we'll see what happens when this part of the state gets smacked. So far, I haven't been here for a hurricane yet, we only got part of a weak one.

@laprepper Жыл бұрын

I can relate to the ocd bug hunt 😂

@karlericsanzenbacher3145 Жыл бұрын

Another shocked by lack of Minnesota. They're viscious there!!

@danielsaunders2586 Жыл бұрын

Minnesota has a short but brutal skeeter season. We are still wearing mittons in May and they can't bite through that usually. Driving to South Dakota for some skeeterless camping is an old tradition. I don't know why I would google skeeter, but I did buy both a bug suit and a zapper already in MN.

@GrnXnham Жыл бұрын

I worked in the woods in SE Alaska for a couple of summers many years ago. It wasn't just the mosquitoes, it was other biting flies as well. The black flies, horse flies, and no-see-ums were all just as bad as the mosquitoes. We had to use the maximum strength Off repellent every 30 minutes or we got eaten alive.