How is this even possible?

[aunt betty]

Went hunting, slept in boat, on water...and got no skeeter bites and was totally unprotected.
Walk out in my back yard for a few minutes and I'm like a pin cushion.
How the? Get stung by honey bees all the time but a couple skeeter bites an I'm bichin'.

[Rick]

You slept on the water, where there usually isn't anything mosquitoes are interested in.

In one of our worst mosquito years, when I took this picture while walking a short grass farm road near midday:


we were barely bothered while sitting in the water teal hunting:


But, lordy, did they eat us alive crossing the low grass cow pasture between there and the trucks. Must have been a bazillion and seven of the little bastards that were tired of cow and anxious for something different.

[aunt betty]

We've had it easy this year and didn't have any numbers of them until the last few weeks.


You mean they got more in the wet soggy south?
Ever been to Alaska? Oh God they got y'all beat.

[Rick]

Montana's Milk River "mosquito country" ain't called that for nothing, either.

[aunt betty]

Splained it quite well. If we'd have had the wind in our faces the skeeters wold have smelled our breath and came hunting us. Wind was parallel with shore so our CO2 was not detectable on land where they live. No wonder I can go fishing and not get bit at all but step ashore and it's like Louisiana. Thanks for teaching me something I should already know.