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  • Northwest Mosquito Abatement District Field Technician Shannon Stutzman performs mosquito abatement in the Potawatomi Woods Forest Preserve near Wheeling. Experts say April's flooding won't lead to unusually large mosquito populations thanks to the cool temperatures that followed.

    Cool air averted flood-borne mosquito swarm May 17, 2013 11:43 PM
    By Eric Peterson First the bad news. Mosquitoes hatched by last month's flooding in the Northwest and West suburbs should be reaching adulthood and beginning to bite this weekend. But the good news is that the cool temperatures, strong winds and below-average rainfall that followed the heavy storm of April 17 and 18 counteracted the potentially ideal conditions this spring brood might have enjoyed.

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