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The outdoors has been hazardous, the last few days. After the thunderstorms during the past week, the moist environment and warm temperatures have proved to be a mosquitos heaven. Apparently in Montevideo they will be spraying parks over this weekend to mitigate the invasion.
Here, on the coast, it is as bad as I have ever seen it. We are like the old west wagon trains. We are huddled in the house, while outside, "they" circle, waiting for an invitation to come in. Fortunately we have nice, secure screens on all of our windows and sufficient air circulation that allows us to be comfortable, while we are virtually barricaded inside the house. We are even keeping the pets inside, as much as possible.
What I would give for a 10' high, giant can of RAID (they sell RAID here, just in the smaller cans, by the way).
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Wow, any dengue down there?
These mosquitoes are not the sort that carry dengue. I don't think that this is a big problem in Uruguay. Though in some parts of Brazil or Argentina, perhaps.
Wally,
I know exactly what you mean... We live on the 9th floor of an apartment here in Montevideo and you would think mosquitoes wouldn't fly that high... But they do...
Unfortunately there are no screens in our apartment, so we've all been barricading ourselves in the one bedroom with an AC and using mosquito nets.
The one thing that gets me is the size of the mosquitoes... They're huge...
Here's a picture of one I killed next to a U.S. quarter: http://blog.exploringuruguay.com/2010/01/the-averagesized-mosquito-in-uruguay.html
Thanks for the visual.
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