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Are mosquitoes especially bad in the Madison area this summer?

UW-Madison entomology professor Susan Paskewitz has a decade of mosquito data. As the director of the Midwest Center of Excellence for Vector-Borne Disease, she studies mosquitoes, ticks and other nuisances and the diseases they may carry.

The Madison area experienced severe drought the last two years. “So the mosquitoes were incredibly low,” Paskewitz said.