“I hate mosquitoes,” said Hayato Nagashima as he and a friend prepared to take a walk in Fish Creek Park on Tuesday.

It’s a familiar refrain heard from many Calgarians following several weeks of unseasonably soggy weather.

“I can’t even go into our backyard without getting eaten alive,” said Tracy Elliott-Suliak. “We tried to go for a walk in the bird sanctuary the other day and I got chased right out. It’s just, it’s bad.”

John Sohigian, an assistant professor in the faculty of veterinary medicine at the University of Calgary, confirms there are a lot more of the pests buzzing around the city lately — likely because of all the rain that fell during the month of July.

In a normal year, Calgary would see about 66.2 mm of precipitation in July, but this year the city experienced its thi

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