Insect influx: Draney talks late-season surge with Fox 11 News
Prof. Michael Draney talked late-summer bugs Friday (Sept. 5), with Fox 11 News, discussing the recent influx of crickets and mosquitos due to soggy weather. The crickets’ development slowed with July’s dry conditions, Draney said, and with the recent rains they’re becoming adults more simultaneously than usual. Different generations of mosquitos emerge in one growing season, so they can respond quickly to improved conditions, Draney added. But they won’t be bugging us for long. “The bugs are going to go away pretty soon. There will be a night when we have what is called a heavy frost, it’s going to be below 25 degrees Fahrenheit and that’s going wipe out the mosquitos and the crickets,” Draney said. Full story.