by mosquitog | Apr 20, 2019 | Blog
Alaska has more than 30 species of mosquitos. These are some interesting facts about them. Mosquitoes are known from as far back as the Triassic Period – 400 million years ago.They are known from North America from the Cretaceous – 100 million years ago.There are...
by mosquitog | Apr 20, 2019 | Blog
While boating down the Yukon River during the hottest summer recorded in Alaska (1915, when Fort Yukon reached 100 degrees Fahrenheit), missionary Hudson Stuck wrote about the wildlife that most bothered his party. “With the failure of a little breeze and the...
by mosquitog | Apr 20, 2019 | Blog
DENALI PARK — All hail to the mighty beavers at Horseshoe Lake. It’s because of them that there are no clouds of mosquitoes pestering park visitors at that popular body of water. Visiting entomologist and mosquito researcher Andrew Guinness came to this conclusion...
by mosquitog | Apr 20, 2019 | Blog
In addition to skin reactions to bites, the primary ways to differentiate bed bug bites and mosquito bites include the differences in bite location on the body, the pattern of bites on the body and the estimated time when a bite occurred. GENERAL...
