Posted on 11/04/2011 7:25:46 AM PDT by ETL
Families Terrorized By Swarms Of Underground Insects That Invade Homes
NEW YORK (CBS 2) — An insect invasion is terrorizing New York City homeowners, making life miserable, even dangerous, for many families. Parents have been forced to take extreme measures to protect their children and their homes.
CBS 2’s Dave Carlin investigates the growing Upper West Side mosquito mystery:
These rare mosquitoes are extra blood-thirsty and active year-round. Carlin saw some of them in a lab after they were collected in the unlikeliest of places, Bernard Lagan’s home on West 84th Street.
“They trapped 150 mosquitoes in the basement in a 24-hour period coming from underground and into the basement and up in to the house through the air vents and it’s the same story as the other brownstones on this block,” Lagan told Carlin.
It’s an invasion that has almost every resident of 84th Street between Riverside and West End Avenue slapping, scratching and suffering.
“They’re hungry. They’re hungry,” said resident Susan Nicholson.
“Three on this ear; one on his cheek; one on his neck,” another woman said, illustrating the bites on one of her children. “And there are some on his arms going up his arm.”
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Lol! It's a news story because it seems to be a new, very aggressive form of mosquito that will likely spread to other areas. And these 'suckers' hang around in winter.
Good point.
Then again, I’m sure there is nothing new about Mosquitoes living in the NYC sewer system.
Lol. I know what you mean, but taken at face value that's a real corker!
Aggressive? We have mosquitoes here that will stand flatfoot in the dust and rape a rooster. They stick around all winter, too...
When I lived and traveled around the south a few years back; I saw many Christian-themed billboards lining the highways but only saw TWO calling upon people to repent. Both were in Georgia.
In NYC there are steam pipes that run beneath the roadways, which warms everything around them. They are talking about Culex Pipiens Molestus living in the storm sewers:
“Eliminating them, we are told by the Health Department, is going to require ripping up the road, treating it and putting the road back down,” Lagan said.
“I just saw coming up from these holes a whole bevy of mosquitoes. If the city were to patch up the holes in the street it would take care of at least some of the mosquitoes,” Rosenthal said.
Culex pipiens molestus breeds all-year round, is cold intolerant, and bites rats, mice, and humans. It is also known as the The London Underground mosquito, where it was first observed during WWII. First appearance in NY, I am guessing.
Yeah, well, you also can’t tell anybody what they are doing is evil or wrong. They might get “offended”
Up until now, we in NYC have only had people that do both of these things. And we do have roosters, believe it or not, in certain areas within the 5 boros.
It's taken a 146 years but the South is striking back and we will get even.
Surrender is their only option.
Find the stagnant water, drain it and get some %$#^%#$ bug spray!!
Why is everything such a freakin’ big catastrophe in liberal cities?
Sounds similar to the Asian Tiger Mosquito. Active in day time and at night - aggressive feeders - Houston had a big problem with them a few years ago. Don’t know if they still do.
Not that it matters,but I am female.
I'm sure it matters to your husband or boyfriend. :)
That’s particularly nasty if they are living in the sewers, because the only thing they could be feeding on down there are the rats. It’s only a matter of time before they transmit some disease from the sewer rats to these Manhattanites.
All true, but what sewer related disease can equal the diseases common on the Upper East Side due the perverse behaviors of teh residents?
Even Plague is easier to cure than HIV, Hepatitis, etc.
In that case, I'd say the mosquitoes are the very least of your worries.
Don’t forget that the greenie windmills kill bats at night. Agreed - bats are amazingly talented at eating pounds of mosquitos per night!
I don’t know details about whether or not NYC even has a bat population. They like our old barn to have their babies in - no barns in NYC, however!!
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