How to Swat a Mosquito


	How to Swat a Mosquito

tabsey

8-27-2009 9:55 AM

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tabsey says:

Not humour.

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8-28-2009 11:35 AM

Satchamo

Found it interesting from the clip that smaller mosquitoes transmit the diseases better than larger mosquitoes. Now I'll know which ones to swat er clap.

8-29-2009 8:06 AM

aklimento

Have mosquito screens on your windows.

8-29-2009 10:27 AM

Steve Savage

and with those rains has come a bumper crop of mosquitoes.

NATURAL SELECTION AT WORK
http://sskotb.blogspot.com/2007/08/natural-selection-at-work-by-steve.html

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everywhere from Kansas and Missouri to New York City and Washington,
D.C., the National Weather Service reported -- and with those rains has
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According to Jeannine
Dorothy, a Maryland state entomologist, the wetter than usual spring
means more mosquito eggs -- and more of the adult critters to swat.
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she and her colleagues were seeing 1,000 or more bugs in their traps in
July. Their observations predict an itchy end to summer.
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According
to Jim Brasseur, a fluid dynamics professor at Penn State University,
the best approach is to clap or slap from both sides — rather than a
swat from one side only.
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