In Maritime Canada and likey in Maine and their neighbouring coastal states, we have two kinds a skeeters that are "bad". One is woods skeeter and the other is the salt water marsh skeeter.

The woods skeeters have a habitat perfectly suited for them in New Brunswick. From the Appalacians to the coast and coastal salt water marshes and deltas is a large area of mixed boreal forest and bog country with a whack of slow moving drainage. Add a huge number of beaver dams and... damn!

In The Merrytimes, the Acadian settlers reclaimed thousands of square miles of salt water marshes along tidal rivers and estuaries with dyke systems. You do the math.

Now, yer woods skeeter is a fair size, tenacious, sneaky, and flies pretty fast. Yer salt water marsh skeeter come in small, medium and large and fly as fast as all three AND the woods skeeter combined.

Round these here parts, "fly dope" is what we call anyone who goes into these areas without a hooded fly jacket.

And... on my old camp (see the members photos) I had a screened in porch. Used to sleep in it in a LazyBoy chair in hot weather. Ya wake up with an awful feeling when the whine of the engines of thousands of skeeters on the screen get THAT loud.