I have never been to Lubbock but that really surprises me. I always thought of it as sort of dry, windy area.
I remember when I lived in Western Kansas, I doubt I ever saw a mosquito the entire five years. Now flies and crickets were common in that area. I suspect if there had been no feed yards, there would have been no flies.
The mosquitoes at Ft. Riley tore me up...of course that's in the northeastern part of the state and essentially a peninsula being bound on three sides by Tuttle Creek Lake, Milford Lake and the Kansas River.
I always got check minuses is reading comprehension... the girls were FROM Lubbock... they musta been vacationing in a swamp somewhere that aint Lubbock.