We've been keeping an eye on cases of the deadly Mosquito virus eastern equine encephalitis. Now we have our first case of sickened animals in Minnesota.
It was a cold, wet winter, followed by a quick warm thaw for the Northland. This weather has created the ideal conditions for ticks and mosquitoes to thrive.
The running joke in Minnesota is the mosquito is the other state bird, they are a huge annoyance and for some a health risk. So with all the products out there, what is worth your money and what works?
The one up-side to this hot dry summer is that I don't think the mosquito have been all that bad. But, I did get one nasty bite that has been driving me crazy.
Enjoyment of the Great Outdoors can sometimes be hampered by those pesky little mosquitoes. Stopping the itch from the bites they leave behind often requires regularly re-applying medication, which you might not have with you on an outdoor adventure...
The mosquitoes are terrible right now, you can't be outside for more than a couple of minutes before a swarm of the pesky bugs start digging into your flesh trying to get at that yummy blood of yours. I've been thinking about deploying a bug zapper in by backyard to battle the pests, but do they work?
We all know how mosquito season is in Minnesota, basically all summer long. For those of you who are allergic to an average mosquito bite, fingers crossed the Asian Tiger Mosquito does not take residence anytime soon.
Be gone pesky mosquito, your stinger is powerless against my super bug trap. Don't we all wish we could say that? Well, now maybe that will be the case.
After an incredibly wet spring and subsequent heat wave, conditions are ripe for a bumper mosquito crop in 2012. This has health officials worried that there will be an uptick in mosquito-transmitted diseases like West Nile Virus. The first case of this virus has just popped up in St. Louis County, beginning what could be a busy season.