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Alaska is swarming in mosquitoes this year

2013-07-31 16:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Mother Nature Network: How bad are the mosquito swarms at Alaska's North Slope? The bugs are so hungry they'll suck the blood out of a horse fly. That's just one of the blood-curdling observations made by Ph.D. candidate Jesse Krause, who recently spent two and a half months studying skeeters at the University of Alaska Fairbanks' Toolik Field Station. As Krause explained to the Alaska Dispatch, this year's mosquito swarm is the worst he has seen in the four summers he has spent at the station. The noise of the flying...

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