Where did all the mosquitoes go during Japan’s scorching summer? – The Mainichi

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1. They’re everywhere right now and insect repellent does nothing.

2. Had them in the garden all summer long. They were terrible.

3. Pretty sure they’re all in my yard.

4. They bit me and my children…a lot

5. In Mie also a tremendous lack of mosquitoes. I recognized what I remember as a youth in the States the smell of “mosquito spray,” which was generally distributed aerosolized from a truck which moved slowly around my neighborhood streets. Your eyes would sting if you pedaled your bicycle too closely. But I remember, it was very affective against mosquitoes.

6. There everywhere in Tokyo

7. One of them decided to bite my eyelid last month and make it all swollen and stupid looking for a few days

8. Right now? They are all apparently in utsubo park. I’m covered in bites.

9. They came up to Tohoku, got bit all summer lol

10. Apparently my fucking apartment

11. I got bitten so bad multiple times, literally had bumps the size of a golfball on my ankle and arm.

12. They were biting the shit out of me

13. To my fucking apartment apparently.

14. I went to the park this afternoon and got bit a fuck ton. I hate mosquitoes with a passion.

15. Weather reports said it was literally too hot for mosquitoes in the summer. Now, they’re getting their revenge.

16. They in my house!

17. To my apartment I guess? I’ve been getting bit all summer.

18. they went on me.
    literally. all. of them.
    trauma

19. We have *blackflies* in the yard now! Didn’t even know they existed in Japan. Nasty little buggers. 🙁

20. What are you talking about? They have been here. Tohoku.

21. It’s literally too hot for Dengue fever. Nice.

22. I remember seeing a few of them, but yeah not that much to the point I was complaining

23. In my room lmao

24. there where all the other insects world wide are going, extinct.

25. Mind your own biz.

26. They all swarmed over the Pacific and are here in Indiana

27. They’re in Texas

28. They’re in Texas

29. They were fuckin me up anytime I went out at night

30. They were all in my yard taking turns on biting me on the neck, the left wrist, and a spot on my left forearm right before it turns into elbow……and the massive swelling let me know they were there. I swear they left a mark for the others. kept getting bit in the same spots

31. They all came to bite my legs no matter how hard I tried to prevent them from doing so.

32. They went to my house apparently…

33. Apparently they went to my house cause I was nursing bites all summer…….😒

34. I killed 13 in my kitchen yesterday. It’s become absolutely crazy after all the rain and the reduced heat

35. My house… We go outside my daughter gets about 5 bites in 3 minutes

36. Well, I only have other last two summers to compare but… at least here in Osaka I have noticed that instead of being “A metric fuckload” of mosquitoes this year, there was just a “Normal ammount” of mosquitoes… I did also moved to an 11th floor, so that might have warped my perception extra…