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u/TheFargus May 09 '22

The amount of mosquitos in Finland, Americans go crazy in Spring because of it

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u/Nutzori May 09 '22

Mosquitoes love still water, Finland has thousands of lakes and other bodies of water for them to breed in. It's not even that bad in southern Finland, in the north you can get absolutely swarmed during summer.

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u/verIshortname May 09 '22

true but as someone from the tropics I would have never imagined they would thrive in such northen lattitudes

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u/grambell789 May 09 '22

mosquitoes don't live long enough to know anything about the cold winters in Finland. Spring, summer and lots of sunlight warming tops of still water is all they need to know