“Mosquitoes remind us that we are not as high up on the food chain as we think” - Tom Wilson
Every once in a while TEB has to travel inland to pay a visit to land-locked relatives. I traveled 200 miles north last weekend to attend a family picnic at my cousin's house located in Levy County. Like most of the southeastern US, the Nature Coast of Florida has been experiencing drought-like conditions for several years now. Thanks to Tropical Storm Debby, Florida got a much needed drenching. Everything is green & growing, the frogs are croaking in crescendo, and the mosquitoes are proliferating with a vengeance. My weekend in the swampy coastal hammock where my cousin lives was in the state of mosquito plague. My cousin's cousin came with his mosquito truck and blew around the property...twice. My cousin's husband donned his full body mosquito net suit that he uses for hunting and sprayed the perimeter of the house with a hand-held fogger. I doused myself in my fancy botanical insect repellent made from Lemon Eucalyptus. The little buggers actual