Getting Away From it All...

[rockgremlin]

"NOTICE: Recently, health officials discovered that mosquito samples from Willard Bay State Park North Marina have tested positive for West Nile Virus. Enjoy your time outside, but remember to take proper precautions when recreating in the area. Wear long sleeve shirts and pants and use mosquito repellent with DEET or Picaridin."

Are you sure they weren't nats? That's what I see the most out there. Noisy, irritating but they don't bite.

Most of the ones I was able to single out and identify were mosquitoes, although they were males. As I understand it, the males have two fluffy looking appendages on their face as opposed to the one single proboscis that the females have for the purpose of sucking blood. But there were definitely females in the swarm because I'm scratching mosquito bites on my arms today. Hopefully I don't come down with the West Nile Virus...