Houston mosquitoes mutate

This is completely unscientific, but it seems to me that the mosquitoes in Houston have mutated. They are now much more consistent about skimming the ground, flying up your pants leg, and biting you high on the ankle, right above the sock. I’m sure some researcher is going to find a gene, call it UPL1 (Up Pants Leg 1) and show us all how this strange mutation was brought on by the convergence of near-tropical climates, heavy rains and tasty blood-engorged calves. I think I want to live and work in a reconstructed space station that admits no critters, at least until next November when the cold starts slowing down the little beasts.

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