This has been a banner summer for bugs. The hot and humid weather has been particularly good for mosquitos, according to Mt. St. Joseph University Professor Emeritus Gene Kritsky.

“Whenever you have temperatures that are warm like we have no, where the average low temperature is above 71 Fahrenheit, mosquitoes can breed a generation in eight days,” he says. “So every day we have more and more mosquitoes emerging.”

Krisky says prevention is perhaps the best defense. He says that means making sure there's no standing water on your property for mosquitoes to breed in.

He says you don't have to choose between mosquitoes and chemicals to enjoy the outdoors.

“Get a fan. Get a strong fan to blow over your back porch, or wherever you like to sit out and that’ll dissipate the carbon dioxide tha

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