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Speaking about mosquitoes I’ve noticed something interesting. Where I live it was impossible during summer time to stay outdoors especially in the afternoon because you’d get bitten in no time. I had like two bites daily for months. Then a couple of years ago they completely disappeared. Incidentally, a large parking was created on the next block that uses led lights around the parking which stay on all night long and are quite bright. Could it be possible that the bright lights turned them away? I can’t find any other correlation to their disappearance. I now get like five bites the entire summer.



The parking lot possibly filled in an area where there was standing water and mosquitoes were breeding heavily.

I've never noticed mosquitoes to be very light-shy.


Did it fill in a bunch of stagnant water?


No. I live close to the sea, but there are no small pools of water around. The area is quite domesticated.


Could be. Mosquito populations are also affected by weather, sometimes the right early spring weather will seriously harm mosquito populations.


A lot of insects are attracted to bright lights. Maybe it attracts them away from you?




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