I’ve heard that the state bird of Alaska is a mosquito.
“I’ve heard that the state bird of Alaska is a mosquito.”
That was stationed in the Aleutians, the mosquitoes weren’t a problem unless there was a calm day which thankfully were few.
When the wind stopped mosquitoes then rise up out of the the tundra and it is a type of hell. I have read where caribou can actually be smothered, though I have never seen carcass photographs documenting this.
Down in the Savannahs of South Carolina and Georgia that had a saying. “The mosquitoes are so big they can f*** a turkey flat foot.” Tidewater Virginia close to water in rural areas is pretty thick with them buggers, “they’ll suck you dry, carry you off, and drop you 7 miles away.” I have a well maintained screened in porch so I might enjoy summer’s evenings. Maine, Michigan et al are renown for the clouds of those ubiquitous infernal creatures.
A creationist once told me that mosquitoes originally sucked nector until satan fell from heaven... or was it when Adam ate the apple?
BTW... MILSPEC DDT really worked.
When Alaska became a state, National Geographic did a large article about Alaska. They included a bunch of jokes about Alaska. Thus was one of them:
One day, the tower at Elmendorf Air Force Base was noticing that there was an unidentified aircraft coming in. They decided that it was not an enemy and that they simply did not have communication available. So, they alerted the ground crews to standby to receive an aircraft to service. The aircraft landed and the crews rushed over to the aircraft to service it. They managed to pump 50 gallons of gas into it before they realize it was an Alaskan mosquito.