They buzz around the yards making all kinds of noise for no apparent reason. I don't think they're indigenous.
Posted on 08/18/2025 5:49:47 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
I thought I remembered that Gates was trying to chemically alter mosquitoes where they could still reproduce but wouldn’t bite for blood.
He supposedly let loose a swarm of his altered skeeters on an unsuspecting crowd that were locked in an auditorium.
I stopped reading when I saw those idiotic words “climate change.” Left-wing BS.
My wife is that way, untouched. While those damn lawyer bugs drain be dry.
They are called Mexican bagpipes on SoCal.
The chillers don’t really have runoff. The cooling towers associated with the HVAC water chillers, do. That blowdown water typically goes to the municipal sewage system.
“As an aside, they don’t seem to like the way I taste. People around me can be being eaten alive by mosquitos, but they hardly touch me.”
The itching from mosquito bites is basically an allergic reaction. They’re biting you, you’re just not allergic to them. At least that’s what I read somewhere.
Long time since I laid eyes on a system. There was always a redundant drain system. They will get dirty and hold runoff in places. Doesn’t take much.
I think it is now in all of the media’s writer’s style guide. Goebbels would be proud.
**Wet grass?... In Las Vegas????**
Over 50 golf courses in the LV metro. They get watered. Lotta grass, and water traps.
https://www.golflink.com/golf-courses/nv/las-vegas
As if Vegas wasn’t atrocious enough already.
That’s what it sounds like.
Area 51 mosquitoes multiplying and moving in?
When dengue fever or whatever breaks out because of all the immigrants, they will need something to blame it on.
“A mix of urban development, climate change, insecticide resistance and genetic adaptations are creating a more hospitable environment for the insects...”
It would be simply urban development .
Building houses with green lawns in the desert is the only factor.
Diet changes?
I’m one of the tasty people. When I was young and living in an area with a few mosquitos I woke up one morning with over 50 bites. My roommate had none.
That may be so, but if I'm getting bitten, in addition to not getting itchy, I don't even have red spots or bumps where they might have bit me.
I have occasionally gotten a mosquito bite (and they do itch), but nothing like people around me that are getting devoured by them. A few years back I often worked with a girl on fireworks shoots on hot summer evenings when the mosquitos were just swarming over the grassy fields. She would just be bit all over even with repellent and I'd end the night unscathed without it.
Time to bring out the fog trucks. Screw the birds.
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