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Mosquitoes swarm Texas town, officials
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Posted By: mc squared, 5/19/2024 11:03:37 PM

Officials are pointing the finger at climate change as a Texas town battles with another spring of exploding mosquito populations. "If you open the car door to go somewhere, you’ve got 10 mosquitoes inside," Mith Varley, a resident of the Houston suburb of Conroe, Texas, said of the issue, according to a report in the Washington Post. Varley, who has lived in the area of Montgomery County for nearly 10 years, told the Washington Post he has never seen it worse. While the area of Texas has always been known as an ideal mosquito habitat,

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Vitaman 5/19/2024 11:09:33 PM (No. 1721028)
I'm sure there were never ANY mosquitos in Texas during the wet season before "climate change." The smell of desperation and other substances is overwhelming.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: formerNYer 5/19/2024 11:23:40 PM (No. 1721033)
Mosquitos in Texas? Oh the hummanity.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Catherine 5/19/2024 11:31:39 PM (No. 1721039)
I grew up in Louisiana, right next door to Texas. We had mosquito's too in the summer. Big trucks used to pass at night spraying poison. We just shut the windows and waiting a bit for it to settle. As wet as Texas has been lately, it's heaven on earth for mosquitos. The only climate change involved is it's spring heading into summer. Happens all the time.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: seamusm 5/19/2024 11:33:20 PM (No. 1721040)
Better than blaming God for summer or those twits who've failed to prepare.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: Proud Texan 5/19/2024 11:56:49 PM (No. 1721044)
If this person only had 10 mosquitos get in their car in Conroe, Texas and though that was a lot of mosquitos after living there for 10 years, they have lived a very protected life. Either that, or they are lying.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: thethirdruffian 5/20/2024 12:17:20 AM (No. 1721049)
Conroe is in a swamp. I used to live there. 30 years ago you couldn’t go outside without long clothes and bathed in OFF.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: Birddog 5/20/2024 12:32:14 AM (No. 1721055)
Skeeter control ain't rocket surgery....mist a little oil...of ANY kind. The larva breathe through little snorkels in the surface of the water...ANY oil, even peanut, canola, avocado, corn oil, any light mineral oil, breaks the surface tension...they drown.That is what is sprayed by the fogging trucks, planes, helos...not poison. It may be that the record setting skeeter blooms after the "record setting"(other than several other times in the past, including 1900) hurricane flooding several years back increased the baseline numbers of broodstock. I grew up out in the sticks off highway six...swampy...EVERY year seemed like the worst year ever for skeeters.When the bug zapper was 1st invented every neighbor hood, and every house setting back off the road all by itself was suffused with a blue glow, and instead of hearing the bugs whine, constant zapping was the dominant night noise. People that read even a little bit of history will know that Washington DC may have had the very WORST mosquito issues of any place in the "New World"...but solved it.Not even ONE case of Malaria last year, and it ain't 'cause the "Climate Changed".
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Reply 8 - Posted by: DVC 5/20/2024 1:01:44 AM (No. 1721065)
I'm CERTAIN that it was ......SEASON change....it's late spring and warming up, this is when the mosquitoes have come out for the last 5 million springs. Idiots.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: mifla 5/20/2024 3:30:15 AM (No. 1721078)
I can relate. My dryer stopped working due to climate change.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: Lawsy0 5/20/2024 4:18:47 AM (No. 1721094)
Thanks, #7. In my best Johnny Carson voice, "I did not know that!"
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Reply 11 - Posted by: sanspeur 5/20/2024 4:20:53 AM (No. 1721095)
Rachel Carson , her lies responsible for more disease and death worldwide than all modern wars together have .
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Reply 12 - Posted by: Strike3 5/20/2024 6:26:02 AM (No. 1721132)
Given the rain and flooding that have befallen Houston this year, one would expect fish in the streets. Exactly what parts of the climate have changed down there?
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Reply 13 - Posted by: Bur Oak 5/20/2024 6:59:00 AM (No. 1721158)
Years ago I worked with a fellow in Houston. He said his grandfather raise cattle and that the mosquitos were soo numerous that his grandfather would tie a handkerchief around the horse's muzzle to keep it from inhaling mosquitos.
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Reply 14 - Posted by: Muguy 5/20/2024 7:14:00 AM (No. 1721168)
Oh, the hysteria!!! Its not long after some rain that msquitos show up-- its called NATURE. Just ANOTHER 'shiny object' to deflect the attention away for REAL stories. As long as there is rain, mosquitos will arrive fron standing water,
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Reply 15 - Posted by: BarryNo 5/20/2024 8:02:45 AM (No. 1721201)
I visited that area decades ago. They always have a mosquito problem. Back then, they had police going around looking for any containers that might catch water and harbor the larvae.
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Reply 16 - Posted by: Roscoelewis 5/20/2024 8:23:35 AM (No. 1721215)
...what everybody else is saying
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Reply 17 - Posted by: hisself 5/20/2024 8:31:05 AM (No. 1721222)
Live in a swamp (bayou), expect mosquitos.
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Reply 18 - Posted by: Manxsom Foe 5/20/2024 9:33:03 AM (No. 1721280)
I hear they have a lot of flies in Texas too.
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Reply 19 - Posted by: Venturer 5/20/2024 9:43:19 AM (No. 1721291)
Bring back DDT.
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Reply 20 - Posted by: chagrined 5/20/2024 9:43:54 AM (No. 1721292)
These people are absolute idiots, but what else is new? Anyone who grew up in Texas, especially the south and southeast parts of the state, was assaulted by swarms of mosquitos after heavy rains. This is just another case where if you continue to repeat a lie people think it's true, which doesn't say much for any who believe it. And thank you, poster # 11! Rachel Carson's faulty data was used to help ban DDT. I hope all the fool leftists in the big cities are enjoying their bedbugs, which were eradicated at one time due to DDT.
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Reply 21 - Posted by: red1066 5/20/2024 10:28:27 AM (No. 1721324)
Has every government official gone completely stupid? It's been extremely wet in parts of Texas. Standing water is the perfect breeding ground mosquitoes. It's why swamps and marsh lands are loaded with mosquitoes and other bugs.
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Reply 22 - Posted by: Starboard_side 5/20/2024 1:02:02 PM (No. 1721393)
The comment that it must be climate change infers that this will continue to happen on a regular basis. That a new pattern of weather will materialize the following year(s). Same for the recent extensive rain in California the past two years essentially removing any drought conditions in the state, based on that same logic. (this despite they didn't forecast the heavy rains from 2 years ago, and this current year started very slowly despite the presumption of very strong El Nino event year - it developed later and continued longer with just the past week having major snow in the Eastern Sierra mountains). Politicians have used the phrase to explain everything to justify expenditures.
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Reply 23 - Posted by: broken01 5/30/2024 8:13:05 AM (No. 1727661)
Oh, they mean actual mosquitos. Not the kind coming across the border.
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