4Y1M 2Y4M 蚊、蚊、蚊・・・ Mosquito, mosquito, mosquito...

ここ数週間また蚊がすごい。例えば、日曜日に数えてみると、就寝前後に、子供部屋で3匹、ラウンジで2匹、バスルームで2匹退治。

それにしても、どこから侵入してくるのか不明。玄関の外では常に蚊が5，6匹うろうろしていて、開いた瞬間に家の中に突入してくるからそこが主ルートか。それ以外は網戸もあるし、昼間にプール側のバルコニーの窓を全開しているが5時には閉めるようにしているし、蚊はみかけない。それなのに毎日のように就寝時になると４，５匹は現れて格闘することになる。

水性薬品のコンセントに差し込むだけの蚊取り線香は全く利かず、ベープマットも怪しい。蚊取り線香が一番いいと思うが臭いから部屋の中では焚けない上、玄関の外に蚊取り線香を置いてみたが、フマキラー製は少なくとも効かず、煙の間を蚊が飛んでいる・・・。寝る前に10分ほど部屋を閉めて蚊のスプレーをして殺虫する方法なら少しは効きそうだが、薬臭い上に、しつこく生き残っている蚊が何匹もいる・・・。ああ、もう、どうしたらいいのかしら。

経験上、やはり原始的な方法が一番効いて、前にも書いたが、モスキートーバットで蚊を見つけ次第殺す方法、あるいは、青いランプでおびき寄せるモスキートーキャッチャーは開けてみると結構捕まっている。

ただ、蚊は一匹でもいたら眠れないから、このところ毎晩起こされるため、睡眠妨害されて疲労困憊。本当にストレス。そして、なぜか刺されるのは私で、Jasonには蚊はあまり興味ないよう。子供部屋には特に注意しているが、朝起きてくると、あちらこちら赤く刺されている子供たちを見ると不憫だ。

モスキートーバットの得意なJasonが出張で不在のため、就寝前に自分で仕留めているが、その大切な武器が一昨日壊れてしまい私は大パニック！昨日はマーケットにもCold Strageにも足を運んだが新品を手に入れられず、夜は敵討ちのように必死に手で退治しまくった。だいたい、自分のベッドに入った後5匹も仕留めたという事実が、その前にスプレーしているのになあとうんざり。

今日はようやく新品のバットを手に入れた。これは充電式でマーケットで12RM。(1RM = 35JPY = 0.20GBP)前のより強力そう。

In the last couple of weeks, we've had so many mosquitoes. On Sunday, I decided to count the number I killed. Just after we got ready to go to bed, I got 3 in kids' room, 2 in our bathroom and another 2 in our bedroom.

I'm quite puzzled where they are from. We have mosquito net in the most of the windows. We keep the windows at the sitting room open during day but in front of them are swimming pool and we don't see any usually, we close them after 5PM as well. The only possibility I can think of is from the main door. Whenever I open it, I always see more than 5 mosquitoes hoovering around as if they are waiting for the door open. And surely, they try to get in! Of course I try to prevent them.

Liquid type mosquito repellent which is plugged in to the electric socket doesn't seem to work. Neither do mat format repellent. I think mosquito coil will work better but because of the smoke and smell, we won't be able to use it inside. I anyway tried burning it out of our main entrance. But still, some mosquitoes are flying in between smoke. We do also spray chemical into the rooms a couple of hours before we go to bed. It sometimes kill them but often I still see lots of survived ones.

As I wrote before, conventional methods without using chemical seem to work better. Like mosquito bat or mosquito catcher.

Yet just one mosquito distract our sleep and I have not slept very well in the last few weeks. I'm often woken up by them or I'm too scared to hear their buzzing noise, I'm always nervous and can not sleep. It's really stressful. For some reason, they only like me and not Jason. I take great attention to kids room too but whenever I see Aratakara with lots of bits in the morning, I feel so guilty.

Jason is very good at mosquito bat but he is away. I've taken him over. But 2 days ago, it broke down. I got really panicked. How could I survive without it! Yesterday, Takara was still off kindergarten but I had to take him to market or Cold Storage to look for the replacement. I couldn't find any!

Last night, I was very serious about killing them. I smashed them with my hands harder than usual as I wanted to make sure to kill them! And I killed 5 just after I went to bed. I'd sprayed the room before so I can tell how many mosquitoes were there! I feel so depressed.

Today I found a new bat in a stall at the market. It's 12Rm (1RM = 35JPY = 0.20GBP) and much more powerful and thus noisy than it predecessor. It's also chargeable.