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Kinda non-tropic related, but still Alaska can have them

#1 Postby wxcrazytwo » Mon Jul 18, 2005 12:37 pm

since we here in Florida get bit by them everytime..

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#2 Postby Pebbles » Mon Jul 18, 2005 1:31 pm

OH I woulda never thought about mosquitos in Alaska!
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#3 Postby alicia-w » Mon Jul 18, 2005 1:34 pm

whenever we go up there, the joke is that the state bird of Alaska is the mosquito. They're huge and numerous!!!

http://www.ipmofalaska.com/files/mosquitoes.html

They have 35 species of mosquitoes in Alaska!
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#4 Postby Wnghs2007 » Mon Jul 18, 2005 1:45 pm

alicia-w wrote:whenever we go up there, the joke is that the state bird of Alaska is the mosquito. They're huge and numerous!!!

http://www.ipmofalaska.com/files/mosquitoes.html

They have 35 species of mosquitoes in Alaska!



Wow I would have never thought that a place so high in latitude could be so mosquito filled. :eek:
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#5 Postby alicia-w » Mon Jul 18, 2005 2:22 pm

and they're savage. There is a LOT of marsh land and while the warm season is short, the days of it are quite long.
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#6 Postby kevin » Mon Jul 18, 2005 3:17 pm

Its because of all the Meese.
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#7 Postby pojo » Mon Jul 18, 2005 7:24 pm

Alaska is warming at a dramatic rate, there are new wetlands forming every day... Wetlands lead to mosquitos. It wouldn't surprise me at all that there is a mosquito problem.
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#8 Postby Swimdude » Mon Jul 18, 2005 9:31 pm

We've been pretty luck here in Houston over the past few years... I'll be a senior next year... So I believe it was my freshman year where I waited for the bus in the mornings... And the mosquitoes were so horrible, I had to put something on myself so I wouldn't get eaten alive. Even then, we know most of those sprays and gels don't work. Yuck.
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#9 Postby kevin » Mon Jul 18, 2005 9:33 pm

They should take a polar bear gene (the one that allows polar bears to withstand the cold of course) and give it to frogs. Then unleash the frogs to eliminate the skeeter problem.
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