[NatureNS] Mosquitoes

Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 14:52:14 -0400
From: "Frederick W. Schueler" <bckcdb@istar.ca>
Organization: Bishops Mills Natural History Centre
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On 8/17/2011 12:34 PM, bev wigney wrote:
> Here at Round Hill, there have been very few mosquitoes until a couple of days ago.  Now there are more, but nothing like I am accustomed to seeing in eastern Ontario.  I have somtimes wondered if the lack of mosquitoes was related to the abundance of bats that race through the gardens each evening.

* I believe the thing that controls overall Mosquito abundance is 
topographic relief, which tends to suppress standing water. Topography 
is absent in eastern Ontario, but abundant in Nova Scotia. In the 
Catskill Mountains of New York, topography is so omnipresent that the 
houses don't even have screens on their windows.

fred.
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