Houston is "NOT' worst city for Mosquito's and we have the proof ! (Port Arthur: homes, neighborhoods)

[nunusguy]

Originally Posted by thenewtexan

So, treeless Dallas-Fort Worth is worse than humid, water logged , wooded, Houston? Um....K...

Well maybe because the DFW area is smack dab in the middle of tornado alley as evidenced by an
EF4 (that's a wedge tornado, the biggest and most violent kind), which hit there on Christmas of 2015. It was a terrible storm which killed about a dozen people and destroyed hundreds of homes.
Who has Christmas tornados - DFW. So which is worse to you - humidity or killer twisters ?

[Texyn]

Originally Posted by nunusguy

Well maybe because the DFW area is smack dab in the middle of tornado alley as evidenced by an
EF4 (that's a wedge tornado, the biggest and most violent kind), which hit there on Christmas of 2015. It was a terrible storm which killed about a dozen people and destroyed hundreds of homes.
Who has Christmas tornados - DFW. So which is worse to you - humidity or killer twisters ?

This has nothing to do with the discussion, which is about mosquitoes.

[nunusguy]

Originally Posted by Texyn

This has nothing to do with the discussion, which is about mosquitoes.

Well the fellow introduced the topic of humidity into the discussion which is surely atleast a segue to
expand the discussion to include weather which is what humidity relates to after all.

[Texyn]

Originally Posted by nunusguy

Well the fellow introduced the topic of humidity into the discussion which is surely atleast a segue to
expand the discussion to include weather which is what humidity relates to after all.

He made that comment in response to the OP's list ranking Dallas higher than Houston for mosquitoes. He was wondering how that was the case, given Houston's greater humidity, higher rainfall, and greater vegetation.

[TheOverdog]

Who has Christmas tornados - DFW. So which is worse to you - humidity or killer twisters ?

Humidity. Mosquitoes by the way, kill more people in DFW than twisters do.

[nunusguy]

Originally Posted by Texyn

He made that comment in response to the OP's list ranking Dallas higher than Houston for mosquitoes. He was wondering how that was the case, given Houston's greater humidity, higher rainfall, and greater vegetation.

When the wind drops and the endless summer sun bakes the ponds that dot the frozen tundra, some of the Arctic’s most ferocious predators emerge and form menacing blizzards that darken the horizon – and everyone’s mood.


“It is the talk of the town when the Arctic mosquitoes are out,” says Lauren Culler, a postdoctoral researcher who studies insects in Greenland for Dartmouth College’s Institute of Arctic Studies. “There aren’t a lot of animals for them to eat in the Arctic, so when they finally find one, they are ferocious. They are relentless. They do not stop. They just keep going after you.”
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2...d-climate-CO2/
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Well turns out maybe there's not necessarily a prerequisite of warm, lush green, & humid countryside for ample mosquitoe populations because it looks like they got squitor issues up in Alaska too.

[TheOverdog]

Well turns out maybe there's not necessarily a prerequisite of warm, lush green, & humid countryside for ample mosquito populations because it looks like they got squitor issues up in Alaska too.

Alaska has lots of water and is not always cold (highest temp 100F in June - only 9F lower than Houston's record high) so it makes sense they have mosquitoes. Look at the header pic in the article. That could be any place in the south if you didn't know it was Alaska.

[nunusguy]

Originally Posted by TheOverdog

Humidity. Mosquitoes by the way, kill more people in DFW than twisters do.

So in other words if the squitors don't get you the twisters will - man that sounds like a real dangerous place !

[madrone2k]

There are some places, like Houston, where one might expect mosquitos to be more abundant because of more standing water, etc. But ... local conditions also matter. I used to live in a Houston townhouse near Buffalo Bayou which, surrounded by beautiful forest, was also rather mosquito-heavy. OTOH, for the last few years, I've lived on the 8th floor of a condo building in uptown Houston and have never seen a mosquito or any other bug, for that matter.

The greatest density of mosquitos I've encountered were in Acadia Natl. Park (Maine), Moscow Russia, Wind River (Wyoming), and rural Brazoria County Tx (on a bayou). Not so much in the city of Houston, although some locales within it can be worse than others.

[TheOverdog]

So in other words if the squitors don't get you the twisters will - man that sounds like a real dangerous place !

More like the heart problems and traffic accidents, but yeah, pretty much!