Annoying but safer mosquito will predominate this summer
By Paul Wood
Friday June 19, 2009
Aedes vexans.
With all this rain, it's hunting season for hungry mosquitoes. While you may be multiply bitten, these biters aren't the disease-carrying kind.
University of Illinois Extension entomologist Phil Nixon said almost-daily rains have created a bumper crop of Aedes vexans, the inland floodwater mosquito.
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