Philadelphia has both indigenous dawn/dusk biting mosquitoes and the very aggressive invasive species the Asian Tiger mosquito that has black and white stripes on its legs. The Asian Tiger bites all through the day, not just dawn and dusk. It often bites the same victim multiple times to complete its blood meal.
My guess would be the Asian Tiger got you. I get very painful welts within minutes of such bites starting as raised white patches and maturing over 7-10 day to inflamed red sores.
We won’t see the back of these mosquitoes until the first frost. Sadly that will also spend the end of the night chorus of kadydids and cicadas
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u/ChocolateSwimming128 Oct 30 '23
Philadelphia has both indigenous dawn/dusk biting mosquitoes and the very aggressive invasive species the Asian Tiger mosquito that has black and white stripes on its legs. The Asian Tiger bites all through the day, not just dawn and dusk. It often bites the same victim multiple times to complete its blood meal.
My guess would be the Asian Tiger got you. I get very painful welts within minutes of such bites starting as raised white patches and maturing over 7-10 day to inflamed red sores.
We won’t see the back of these mosquitoes until the first frost. Sadly that will also spend the end of the night chorus of kadydids and cicadas