FoxTrot Classics by Bill Amend for August 10, 2018

Now you know the rrrrrrrrrrrest of the story. ~Paul Harvey Aurandt, Sr. (1918-2009)

I found a place like that once while I was kayaking; it was a small island in a river in central Maine. Inhaled at least six mosquitoes per breath. We called it “Itchy Island” as we fled. It really was amazing.

Yeahhhh, if they can still see each other at more than three paces, it isn’t the spot on Earth with the most mosquitoes per acre.

The Alaska Wonderland they are always trying to save from oil drilling has so many mosquitoes that they drain a pint of blood from the caribou or moose or whatever a day.

More biting humor from the park ranger.

Bring in the Bats.

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East-central Texas after a disastrously rainy fall. So many skeeters and so big, we could have shot a brace with a shotgun and taken them home for dinner.

Had a friend of my step-father tell me about time spent in summertime Alaska. The mosquitoes would stick their probiscis through the tent material. They would use a straight razor to shave off the mouth parts of the skeetos.

I’ll be that Cactus Flats is looking like a mighty good alternative right now…

I forget: aside from the trip to Hawaii, has anything Roger picked ever been anything BUT a disaster?

Just be happy it is only the females looking for mammal blood for their eggs, they consume nectar not blood.

I spent the summer of "08 in Alaska, the biggest mosquitos I have ever seen in my life and a lot of them too.

Andy is going to be a long time in forgiving this adventure, Roger.

At least it wasn’t blackflies…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjLBXb1kgMo