mosquitoes

Ah, mosquitoes, the tiny vampires of the insect world. With summer coming in hot and heavy in Illinois, we know the skeeters will be out for blood.

While we complain about the cold, and the lingering winter-like conditions, we may be forgetting that at least frigid Northern Illinois weather keeps the bugs away...for the most part.

It's pretty clear that Chicago is on a roll this year when it comes to having annoying, biting, or bloodsucking pests in abundance (and in elected office). I'm just not sure that this is the kind of thing Chicago's tourism folks would want to brag about.

It's not that our two states don't agree that there are insects that should be hated, it's just that we disagree on which creep-crawly should draw the most disdain.

Some reasons why mosquitoes decide to bite you.

The sign outside Rockford's Christ United Methodist Church on S. Mulford Rd. took a pretty strong yet popular position on the always annoying insects.

You may make your neighbors mad but you'll keep the mosquitos away.

Get ready people, all the rain lately will have the flood water mosquitoes out in numbers!

According to the CDC, this wonderful smelling oil is this could be much safer and a more natural weapon than DEET.

Mosquitoes. They've been so bad lately. It doesn't seem to matter that the weather has started to cool either. Want to get rid of them? Here's how to make a mosquito trap. I wanted to know "Does this work?"