Marc
Lallanilla, Assistant Editor
Date: 08 March
2013 Time: 05
One of the
most ferocious insects you've ever heard of — it's the size of a quarter and
its painful bite has been compared to being knifed — is set to invade Florida
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| CREDIT: UF IFAS / Sean McCann |
The Sunshine
State, already home to man-eating
sinkholes, invading Burmese
pythons, swarming
sharks, tropical storms and other disasters, can expect to see an explosion
of shaggy-haired gallinippers (Psorophora ciliata), a type of giant mosquito,
according to entomologist Phil Kaufman of the University of Florida.
Gallinipper
eggs hatch after a rainstorm or flood, and the state saw a big jump in the
numbers of gallinippers last summer after Tropical Storm Debby dumped its load
on Florida Florida
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