After Ike, bug fighters fear bumper crop of mosquitos

 
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: July 5, 2009

Millions of mosquito eggs laid across southern Texas after Hurricane Ike hit the coast last summer are waiting for the little bit of rain and hot summer days they need to hatch. That’s got the man whose job it is to fight the bugs worried — he’s already running out of money.

Lee Chastant and fellow bug battlers across the Gulf of Mexico in Florida , up the East Coast in Connecticut and on t...


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