No, it is not; it IS and always has been in Bemidji, where the mosquitoes, in te summer time, are almost the size of B1 bombers!
I’ve lived in the Bemidji trade area 30 years now. The question was about the “big” Babe. The one in (or used to be in) Brainerd was, I believe, bigger than our babe, and that was his reference... kind of like the monstrous Paul in Akeley. No slight intended to the BP on the waterfront!