'It's a horror movie': A 'biblical' swarm of mosquitos has invaded a Cape Cod town

[TexasTowelie]

A swarm of mosquitos is creating a nuisance on Cape Cod.

An outbreak of the pesky insects in Wellfleet was brought on by “salt water inundation in Duck Harbor due to a dune over-wash,” according to The Cape Cod Mosquito Control Project.

“We’ve had a wash-over effect,” Assistant Superintendent Bart Morris told NBC 10 Boston. “Mother nature breached a dune and it’s just a ripe ground for breeding.”

The result is one of the worst mosquito outbreaks the area has seen in decades.

“It’s a horror movie,” Jodi North Birchall, a 41-year Wellfleet resident, told the news station. “This is the worst I have ever seen.”

Read more: https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2021/07/16/its-a-horror-movie-a-biblical-swarm-of-mosquitos-has-invaded-a-cape-cod-town/

[no_hypocrisy]

1. 1966 - Barnegat Light, NJ

Shore town.

Every night for 2 weeks, residents and renters were told to go indoors, stay indoors for the evening, close the doors and windows. Tanker trucks with insecticide would go up and down the streets, spraying to kill the mosquitos.

Not exactly summer fun, but it was the best they could do to address the problem at that time.

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2. The community where we used to live were doing it as recently as 10 years ago.

A lady I used to know would run out there to talk to the drivers so that she would
‘Get a little extra’ for her yard.
She got cancer a few years later and I always wondered about it.