Beware the Gallinippers!
In 1897 author David Flanery described an insect by saying it was “the shyest, sliest meanest, and most venomous of all.” Unfortunately, he was not talking about something out of a horror film, he was describing a mosquito! Mega-mosquito, that is. The “gallinipper” is a floodwater mosquito with a body about half an inch long, making … Continue reading Beware the Gallinippers!
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