It’s not your imagination. Texas mosquitoes are bigger — and meaner — than usual

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It’s not your imagination. Texas mosquitoes are bigger — and meaner — than usual

The bloodsuckers are back. Mosquitoes, the bane of our collective existence, have returned with a vengeance following several months of drought and now floods that have swept across much of Texas. But these mosquitoes are not just any old mosquitoes. Known as “floodwater mosquitoes,” they are bigger and more aggressive than their container and stagnant-water […]

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