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Monday, August 3, 2009

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Posted by Bethany Jean Clement on Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 8:24 AM

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At home, getting ready for work, just killed a mosquito as big as a helicopter WHILE it was attached to my leg. The blood! I may need a transfusion. To the best of my recollection, we didn't even HAVE mosquitoes in Seattle when I was growing up. When did they start getting so HUGE?

As a friend's mom once said, "Life is bugs." But does life have to be more, bigger bugs?!

Photo by Kecko from flickr.

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Time to watch Starship Troopers again to understand what lies ahead for us. :-)

Posted by Timothy on August 3, 2009 at 8:23 AM

it's global warming.
blame bush.

Posted by ...if it'll make you feel better... on August 3, 2009 at 8:31 AM

It could have been mosquitoes that did in the dinosaurs.

Posted by Vince on August 3, 2009 at 8:32 AM

I guess it could always be worse. You could have roaches.

Posted by Fifty-Two-Eighty

on August 3, 2009 at 8:33 AM

That cold wet winter followed by a wet spring has brought us a gazillion mosquitoes. Would you like to see all of the bites I have?

Posted by au_gout on August 3, 2009 at 8:35 AM

you didn't just kill a crane fly did you? they're huge a look like skeeters. but then where did the blood come from…hm.

Posted by rara avis on August 3, 2009 at 8:37 AM

Seattle always seemed pretty sterile to me on the bug front. Although, 5280, my first apartment there did have roaches. Not many (they were spraying the place down pretty well) but I did see one scurry down the drain a couple of times.

Posted by Matt from Denver on August 3, 2009 at 8:42 AM

Hey @2 The party which Bush belongs has been fighting against established science on behalf of their oil company bosses for decades. So blaming Bush for global warming is pretty apt. He was a part of the problem. Of course global warming has nothing to do with there being mosquitos in Seattle. Go to Alaska in the summer. There's plenty of mosquitos.

Anyway. There have always been mosquitos around here. Maybe in the 70s-80s Seattle proper didn't have as many due to pollution, and destruction of wetlands, etc. We should be encouraged that they are back.

Posted by Toasterhedgehog on August 3, 2009 at 8:43 AM

@8
Seattle used to be under glaciers.
Then the Republicans came along and heated up the planet and the glaciers receded.
In fact, it has happened four times.
Damn Republicans.
Damn them to Hell for heating up the planet.

Posted by The Planet never Warmed before the Republicans came along... on August 3, 2009 at 8:58 AM

my wife thought i was crazy when i insisted on screens on the windows. "therz no muskytoes in seattle". then the neighbors installed a "fountain" that sounds like a racehorse peeing in a lake.

Posted by Max Solomon on August 3, 2009 at 9:01 AM

Yes, Virginia, there were mosquitoes in Seattle back in the day.

Posted by TVDinner

on August 3, 2009 at 9:27 AM

I was just wondering why I've never noticed them in Seattle til now - and can anyone tell me their purpose besides Jurassic Park?

Posted by TripleX on August 3, 2009 at 9:32 AM

This weekend my dog got a tick. In the backyard of my house. I've lived in Western Washington my entire life and never, in 43 years, have I seen a tick in an urban neighborhood. Sure...out in the woods or by a lake, but not in my back yard.
Scoff at global climate change if you like but Western Washington is starting to look a lot more like Eastern Washington every day.

Posted by tacomagirl on August 3, 2009 at 9:44 AM

Eh. Seattle is remarkably bug free. Unless you live in a basement apartment as I did my first two years here, way too many spiders for my liking.

Posted by keshmeshi on August 3, 2009 at 10:44 AM

spiders aren't bugs. but you are correct, there are too many of many kinds of them everywhere in my house.

Posted by Max Solomon on August 3, 2009 at 10:48 AM

The meek shall inherit the earth.
And then they will grow to the size of dinosaurs.

Posted by treacle on August 3, 2009 at 11:41 AM

Spiders aren't insects anyway...I think they may qualify for the far less techical term "bug"...

And Seattle is still a heavenly bug-free place compared to say, Massachusetts.

Posted by lythea on August 3, 2009 at 1:47 PM

I have been here for 30 years and I remember the mosquito biting me since I was a child. However, I think the fact that I grew up right on Bitter Lake played a large role in my childhood bites! I have a bite on me right now from my nightly 10 pm Greenlake loop. The hot weather definitely seemed to have strengthened their numbers.

Posted by NumberOne on August 4, 2009 at 2:27 PM