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Iceland reports the presence of mosquitoes as climate warms

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121 points sans_souse | 3 comments | 22 Oct 25 22:15 UTC | HN request time: 0.645s | source
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Mistletoe ◴[22 Oct 25 23:27 UTC] No.45676453[source]▶
I’m sorry Iceland. :( Mosquitoes are the absolute worst. I have to cover myself in picaridin anytime I go outside in the summer where I live. I wouldn’t wish that on anyone.
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1. tombert ◴[23 Oct 25 02:43 UTC] No.45677628[source]▶
I needed my wife's help lugging a TV into my house from the sidewalk to the living room a few weeks ago. She wasn't out even fifteen minutes, and she got at least twenty separate mosquito bites on her legs.

For whatever reason, mosquitos almost never bite me. I don't know if it's just because I'm pretty hairy, or if I have the gene that makes me less appealing to them, but I am thankful every day that I don't have to deal with it.

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2. anonzzzies ◴[23 Oct 25 05:02 UTC] No.45678303[source]▶
They never sting me or land on me. My friends hate me as when on trips, they get attacked all the time and have spray and smear all kinds of crap on them, while I have nothing. Never had. Not sure how it works.
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3. tombert ◴[23 Oct 25 05:08 UTC] No.45678331[source]▶
I have gotten mosquito bites as a kid, so it's not a foreign thing to me, but I'm not sure I've had one in the last twenty years.

I'll consider myself lucky.