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IanB:
--- Quote from: CatalinaWOW on June 08, 2023, 05:30:42 am ---I wonder why annoying insects are less common in Britain. Certainly all climates in the US have them.
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Well, flying insects are not much of a nuisance in southern California. I think because of the desert climate. There are more insects in Britain, for sure.
Ed.Kloonk:
--- Quote from: TimFox on June 08, 2023, 01:43:21 pm ---
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--- Quote from: PwrElectronics on June 08, 2023, 12:53:00 pm --- The local joke was they are so large and numerous they are the state bird.
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My father was a student pilot in Florida in 1940s and he used to tell us that a mosquito landed at the airport one time and they loaded on 10,000 pounds of fuel before they realized that it wasn't an airplane.
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I'm also originally from Minnesota. The story is told about the two tourists who ignored advice about the mosquitos and ventured into the woods without precautions. Two 6-foot mosquitos proceeded to kill them. One asked the other, "should we take them deeper into the woods to eat them?"--"No, the big mosquitos will take them away from us."
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Yikes!
jpanhalt:
--- Quote from: TimFox on June 08, 2023, 01:43:21 pm ---I'm also originally from Minnesota. The story is told about the two tourists who ignored advice about the mosquitos and ventured into the woods without precautions. Two 6-foot mosquitos proceeded to kill them. One asked the other, "should we take them deeper into the woods to eat them?"--"No, the big mosquitos will take them away from us."
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My first job was in Minnesota (raised in California). One of the older members of the group said an early explorer wrote in his diary, "It takes a brave man on a fast horse to cross Minnesota in the Summer." He attributed that to Lewis and Clark, but I haven't confirmed that attribution.
TimFox:
The Lewis and Clark expedition did not go through the modern state of Minnesota, but they did go through what are now North and South Dakota after leaving the Mississippi River at the boundary between modern Illinois and Missouri.
CatalinaWOW:
--- Quote from: IanB on June 08, 2023, 01:45:03 pm ---
--- Quote from: CatalinaWOW on June 08, 2023, 05:30:42 am ---I wonder why annoying insects are less common in Britain. Certainly all climates in the US have them.
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Well, flying insects are not much of a nuisance in southern California. I think because of the desert climate. There are more insects in Britain, for sure.
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It isn't the desert climate. When I lived in Tucson there were more insects of many varieties than in a lot of other places I have been. But I lived in the LA basin for quite a while too, and agree that flying insects aren't as big a problem there. I suspect that that a combination of factors apply - a large urban region probably has far more formal and ad hoc insect control measures in place. There is sure plenty of insecticide on sale at home improvement stores and many other venues. And the mostly urbanized terrain must have some damping effect on the insect population.
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