Iowa has seen fewer mosquitoes than usual this summer, but recent rainfall may change that, according to Donald Lewis, a professor and extension entomologist at Iowa State University.
Lewis says drought conditions in Iowa in the first part of the summer led to low mosquito populations.
“The rainfall we had in parts of the state where they got one or two inches all at once could rapidly change that situation," he says. "So don’t think we’re out of the woods for mosquito bites through the rest of the summer.”
Lewis says mosquito populations could still rebound this summer.
