Rain feeds huge skeeter crop

From: Winnipeg Free Press | Date: June 11, 2008| Author: Kives, Bartley | Copyright information

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By Bartley Kives

Coming soon to a poorly drained field near you -- lots and lots of nuisance mosquitoes.

Winnipeggers can expect to start swatting aggressive but disease-free Aedes vexans mosquitos around the first day of summer, June 21, as recent heavy rains have ended the dry soil conditions that gave us a relatively skeeter-free spring.

City entomologist Taz Stuart predicts Winnipeg wi...