So you're thinking about Spring and Summer?

Hopefully it won't be a wet one because that's just the kind of environment in which these pesky little, blood-sucking, disease carrying creatures thrive.

Now scientists say, similar to our ability to develop resistance to antibiotics, mosquitoes are apparently developing a resistance to DEET.

Mosquitoes are most noted for carrying and spreading West Nile virus.

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