STORM2K

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

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8258983/

OH I woulda never thought about mosquitos in Alaska!

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!

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.

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.

Its because of all the Meese.

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.

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.

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.