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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Erum Salam

‘Horrifying. Gross’: mosquitoes bug Houston after recent storms

A very small, brown, winged insect with a long skinny proboscis and six long skinny legs.
A mosquito, in an undated photo. It is probably dead by now. Photograph: Stefan Sollfors/Alamy

Amid the severe weather that has battered parts of the country in recent weeks, particularly the US south, the city of Houston in Texas can add one more thing to their worries: mosquitos.

Houston’s usually humid climate already makes it attractive to mosquitos, but the additional rainfall and major flooding it is seeing makes it an ideal habitat for the bothersome insects.

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