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Faux-Skeeters and Other Wildlife

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April 15th 2011
Wednesday night we noticed it getting pretty buggy, so we closed the screens on the back deck, then the doors to the deck. By the time we went to bed the screens and the windows were covered with bugs, what I call faux-skeeters, but around here they call blind mosquitoes. Thursday morning, they were everywhere. We swept some off the front windows and tapped them off the screens, but they swarme ... read more

North America » United States » Florida » Sanford

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Britain's American colonies broke with the mother country in 1776 and were recognized as the new nation of the United States of America following the Treaty of Paris in 1783. During the 19th and 20th centuries, 37 new states were added to the origina... ... read more