it was the same over in Alberta this year, they were brutal, you couldn't sit in the garden without being attacked, the experts were saying...because we had a wettish start to the summer season, then sunshine/showers, it makes good for mosquitoes, the larvae can lay in rank stagnant water for a year or so until the perfect time comes and then they all come out at once, they are attracted to carbon dioxide and the heat of living things, so we don't stand much of a chance when there around, plus, it's only the females that bite you, further on in Alberta, people were wearing bee keeper suits to