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Alaska is swarming in mosquitoes this year
2013-07-31 16:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mother Nature Network: How bad are the mosquito swarms at Alaska's North Slope? The bugs are so hungry they'll suck the blood out of a horse fly. That's just one of the blood-curdling observations made by Ph.D. candidate Jesse Krause, who recently spent two and a half months studying skeeters at the University of Alaska Fairbanks' Toolik Field Station. As Krause explained to the Alaska Dispatch, this year's mosquito swarm is the worst he has seen in the four summers he has spent at the station. The noise of the flying...
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Kite Patch makes you invisible to mosquitoes
2013-07-19 21:37:33| CNET News.com
This lightweight patch can keep blood-sucking bugs away and could prove key in the global battle against malaria. [Read more]
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Mosquitoes bugging you? University of Manitoba students create an app for that
2013-07-03 02:21:09| Biotech - Topix.net
This 2006 photo made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows a female Aedes aegypti mosquito acquiring a blood meal from a human host at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta.
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