My brother was stationed in Alaska once for a time and said there were reports of bush pilots having gone down who died from blood loss and the venom from the mosquitoes.
A friend of mine worked on the Alaska Pipeline. I visited him a 150 miles north of Valdez around the summer of 1974. I opened the door of my pickup truck, stepped out, and was INSTANTLY covered in huge mosquitoes. I’ve never seen anything like it. I don’t know how those workers survived building that project. I pretty much said “Hi” to my buddy and skedaddled back to Valdez.
My brother was stationed in Alaska once for a time and said there were reports of bush pilots having gone down who died from blood loss and the venom from the mosquitoes.
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Mosquitos have venom they inject? I thought it was just some saliva they left behind....