Word: mosquitoe
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...addition to floods, mudslides and other natural havoc, this year's wet weather has had some less publicized if irritating consequences. Their ranks swollen by record springtime rains, mosquitoes are attacking in force in many parts of the country, feasting on their human prey with buzzing fury. To Gary Benzon, mosquito-control superintendent for Plymouth County, Mass., south of Boston, there is no doubt that this will be a bumper summer for the pesky insects. "In an average year we get about a thousand calls about mosquito problems between May and September. This year we have already got close...
...entomologists acknowledge, no one can get an accurate scientific count of mosquito populations. Nor does the plague seem to be universal. In Illinois and Indiana, wasps and bees are beginning to appear in large numbers, but residents in those states, as well as in some Mid-Atlantic areas, are enjoying a summer relatively free of mosquitoes. In New England, California and sections of the South, however, heavy rains have left pools of standing water in which the larvae of mosquitoes have flourished. Entomologist Jon Turmel of the Vermont department of agriculture cites a simple personal test. He rolls...
...Sudd, Arabic for barrier, is aptly named. Its central 7,000 sq. mi. are permanently clogged with reeds and papyrus and infested with 63 species of mosquito. From May to October, the White Nile floods and temporarily extends the swamp another 4,300 sq. mi. Says Daniel Yong, a member of the area's nomadic Dinka tribe and a Jonglei Canal project official: "In the rainy season there is water everywhere, but in the dry season you can die of thirst." The Sudd proved an obstacle to 19th century explorers, but today it is more of a hindrance...
...gallery full of mock Stalinist socialist realism, done in the correct borsch-and-gravy colors of official Soviet art 30 years ago? But there is nothing that pluralism will not give us; and so it is with the exhibition by Vitaly Komar (a name that, in Russian, means "mosquito") and Alexander Melamid, which grandly fills the Ronald Feldman Gallery all this month...
...Mosquito Coast, Paul Theroux