Maybe there’s hope for Minnesota.
Good luck. lol
All them lakes and ponds.. and puddles ... I don’t miss the skeeters, I miss the ice fishing tho and if the crappies and walleyes are biting , ya can endure a little nip or two.. wifey swells up if a skeeter bites her and she hates the cold tho, she’s an island girl.. but even Hawaii has skeeters ..
I visited drier climes in AFRika and Middle East in the 80s, never swatted one the whole time.. but I never was in the rain forest and damper areas either, unfortunately. That’s where the real wild life hang out..
minnesota needs mosquitoes. Fish eat mosquito larva so if there was a drop in mosquitoes, fish would starve, and minnesota would lose tourism from vacationing fishermen.
Naw, I’m sure your state bird is okay.
Not just MN, when we were stationed in NW North Dakota the mosquito was considered to be the state bird. In the Grand Forks area there have been regular problems with Eastern Equine Encephalitis. Maybe the malarial parasite is more quickly killing off the carrier.
Cooler dryer climates are a sign of the impending return of the Big Ice ~ which has happened numerous times over the last few million years.
Minnesota mosquitos are well adapted to such a climate and will undoubtedly spread to Africa to take the place vacated by their moist warm Earth cousins.