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Peter Moylan wrote:

> Meanwhile, Google Maps has reminded me that the swamp is officially
> called the Hunter Wetlands National Park. It's a largish swamp,
> stretching from Hexham to some of the suburbs of Newcastle, and
> including much of Kooragang Island, a large island that separates the
> Hunter River into two arms.
> 
> Newcastle University is adjacent to the swamp, and the engineering
> complex is the most adjacent of all. When we first moved to that campus
> the Hexham Greys, a large species of mosquito, were a major pest. Some
> years later their numbers went down, possibly because of drought. A
> dozen or so years ago I had a house only a short block from the swamp. I
> didn't have a mosquito problem, but I did have to watch out for snakes.

I watched a tv program about moose in Sweden. A huge swarm of mosquitoes
can actually kill a grown up moose because they stress it so much that
it can't eat or drink properly, and it also gets tired of course.

-- 
Bertel
Kolt, Denmark