Scientists are predicting a bumper crop of mosquitoes across the Northeast after a June full of heavy rains.
Mosquitoes make an appearance each spring as melting snow and spring showers create the standing water that mosquitoes need to reproduce. Usually, larvae die as the puddles dry up.
But they haven’t yet this year because of all the rain.
Nature observers around the region have been reporting a hardy mosquito population.
Clay Kirby of the University of Maine cooperative extension says the mosquitoes were so bad on a recent night that he had to seek shelter.