mosquitoes

While we complain about the cold, and the lingering winter-like conditions, we may be forgetting that at least frigid Northern Illinois weather keeps the bugs away...for the most part.

It's pretty clear that Chicago is on a roll this year when it comes to having annoying, biting, or bloodsucking pests in abundance (and in elected office). I'm just not sure that this is the kind of thing Chicago's tourism folks would want to brag about.

It's not that our two states don't agree that there are insects that should be hated, it's just that we disagree on which creep-crawly should draw the most disdain.

Let's make this short and sweet. Of all the things we have to worry about right now (and there's plenty), a mosquito infecting you with the coronavirus is not one of those things.

The Winnebago County Health Department (WCHD) is looking for local resident volunteers to help protect their neighborhoods from the nasty little biters.

A police department in Wisconsin got some help from a strange source, mosquitoes.

The wet weather we had, followed by the dry weather we're having, make for great living conditions---if you're a mosquito.

If there was ever a time to stress the importance of using mosquito repellent, now is the time. West Nile Virus has been discovered in Roscoe.

I guess you could call this a follow-up to yesterday's piece, "Rockford's Weather is Getting Warmer, Mosquitoes Getting Thicker." After mentioning how we've been dealing with those biting pests around our house, several of you emailed me with other ideas.

Here in the Rockford area, we've had plenty of wet weather leading up to summer. While that's been great for crops and landscaping, it brings with it an unpleasant side-effect. More mosquitoes.