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This can't be true. I lived on the Canadian Prairies, where it was normally below freezing for 6 months every single year, and below minus 40 for several weeks

by soperj 4y ago

This can't be true. I lived on the Canadian Prairies, where it was normally below freezing for 6 months every single year, and below minus 40 for several weeks at a time, and yet there were tons of mosquitoes every summer.

Huh1337 4y ago
Below freezing air, but it's not freezing just few centimeters underground or underwater.
- bawolff 4y ago
  You would have to go far more than a few cm underwater. We use ice bridges in the winter. A few cm of ice is not enough to support a giant truck.
- monknomo 4y ago
  frost line is like 6 feet underground in these places. There is permafrost in mosquito land!
jokoon 4y ago
this gives enough time for the eggs to hibernate and hatch. for the eggs to die, there must be a lukewarm summer, and a long winter. beyond that, it's also about averages.
- soperj 4y ago
  I remember having snow on the ground every October, and it never leaving before April. I also remember having snow on the ground one year on my first day of school in August. They get hot summers though. Contrast that with the coast, when it's lukewarm summers, and barely a day with snow each year (lots of rain) but there are barely any mosquitoes.