YAのNews Roomに地元紙「Fresno Bee」の今シーズンのヨセミテの蚊についての記事が掲載されています。
DEETの話、西ナイル熱の話、ロッククライミングで友人のロープを掴んで支えていたら、腕が蚊に覆われたという話など、、、。
This year, Yosemite’s heavier-than-normal snowpack has sent powerful waterfalls crashing over once-dry granite, filled rivers, and closed the park for one day because of flooding.
On the minute end of the scale, it has hatched thousands of buzzing, biting mosquitoes that love puddles of standing water.
Are there more mosquitoes than normal? Lots of Yosemite old-timers think so, and the bugs are present much later than in a typical year.
A recent article in the Fresno Bee polled a number of Yosemite visitors about their mosquito experiences.