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Rain feeds huge skeeter crop
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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...