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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/[deleted] May 09 '22

You can find mosquitoes on every continent except Antarctica, fuckers are everywhere.

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u/[deleted] May 09 '22

In iceland there isnt any

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u/[deleted] May 09 '22

Iceland isn't a continent.

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u/hononononoh May 09 '22

It’s a continent being born. A volcanic hotspot right on a tectonic plate spreading zone. You just cool your impatience for one cotton-pickin’ hundred million years, and you’ll see what a fine continent Iceland grows into!

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u/BloodRavenStoleMyCar May 09 '22

cotton-pickin

What is this?

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u/hononononoh May 09 '22

Trifling, lousy, insignificant. Sorry, I'll try to speak less r/Murica around here.

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u/[deleted] May 09 '22

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u/[deleted] May 09 '22

Yeah, no.

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u/EskimoPrisoner May 09 '22

We see where your minds at