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Rising mosquito population in Edmonton
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7/30/2010

Finally an answer to where all those mosquitoes came from.

You're used to dawn and dusk swarms of what would be considered summer time mosquitoes.

However those day-time biters are the spring-time variety and they're here in record numbers because they've come from eggs that have lay dormant for years, even a decade, according to Mike Jenkins, the city's Biological Sciences Technician.

"There's apparently an awful lot of active eggs out there, that are now developing into mosquitoes now that we finally have rain again," says Jenkins. (sj, kn, ccg)

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