[ExI] storms again

[MB]

spike jones via extropy-chat wrote:

> John how long has it been since you saw a cloud of mosquitoes?  Can you go outdoors and get no bites at all now?  I was down there about a year ago and got exactly one mosquito bite in an entire week, no deer flies (remember those? (and for that matter, no horseflies (remember those? (where the heck did the biting flies go?  (note I am not complaining, just asking.)))))

I haven't seen a cloud of mosquitoes since I moved from low country 
South Carolina where they were omnipresent.  Remember the land being 
treated with dustings of DDT to keep them down?  Mosquito Control was a 
real project for the state, & my mom got a job regularly reporting to 
them on the mosquito population.  We lived out in the boonies and the 
state didn't want to send some men in a truck out there just to check.

However, I have mosquitoes where I live now and working outdoors in 
summer is most annoying because of long trousers, longsleeve shirts, 
high collars, big sunhats.  No-see-ums and mosquitoes are plentiful. :( 
But not *clouds* like in the low country.

As for horseflies and deer flies, I do see them but very occasionally. 
Odd, as I think I see more deer than deer flies.

Regards,
MB