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    by Guide Mar 13
    Huge Florida mosquitoes: Monster insects are called 'Gallinippers'
    Huge Florida mosquitoes the size of a quarter are set to invade Florida —
    if the rainy season is wet enough.

    By Marc Lallanilla, Live Science / March 9, 2013

    This perfectly ordinary mosquito is shown at high magnification.
    The huge mosquitoes poised to invade Florida are nearly this big without magnification —
    they're about 20 times larger than ordinary mosquitoes. Pat Wellenbach/aP

    http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Latest-...d-Gallinippers
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  4. Mar 13 by
    They must be related to the monsters common in Alaska...geesh, it is like science fiction!
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  5. Guide
    Mar 13 by
    Quote from tewdles
    They must be related to the monsters common in Alaska...geesh, it is like science fiction!
    Who remembers the 1950s movies with giant ants? And one with giant grasshoppers?
    imintrouble, nursel56, tewdles, and 1 other like this.
  6. Guide
    Mar 13 by
    I recall the ants. I think I remember the grasshoppers. There were so many of those movies. My favorite was The Night of the Lepus.

    Wonderful way to waste a Saturday afternoon with bad movies.
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  7. Mar 14 by
    When I was a kid our local movie theater ran B movies, many of them sci-fi, on weekends...it cost 50 cents...which was a great deal of money it seemed considering the bus downtown cost me a dime.
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    Mar 14 by
    The giant ant movie was called "THEM" about ants that grew after being irradiated. My sisters and i saw it on TV the summer of 1957.


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    Mar 14 by
    Florida is just waiting to be attacked by these next!!! From the Gulf and the Atlantic!!! aieeeeee!!!I love these movies, and Roger Corman made some of the best . . .

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    Mar 14 by
    Quote from herring_RN
    The giant ant movie was called "THEM" about ants that grew after being irradiated. My sisters and i saw it on TV the summer of 1957.





    Must have been a great year! I was born in the summer of 1957!~

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  11. Mar 15 by
    Quote from nursel56
    Florida is just waiting to be attacked by these next!!! From the Gulf and the Atlantic!!! aieeeeee!!!I love these movies, and Roger Corman made some of the best . . .


    Giant crabs? YUM!

    Just got back from the Gulf Coast of Florida where I pigged out on seafood. I figure I'm 63, any damage done by BP pollution probably won't make much difference to my lifespan.
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  12. Mar 18 by
    I for one will be peppering my property with bird feeders.
    Aren't birds supposed to eat mosquitos?
    Will I then have a problem with crazed birds after they eat the mega-mosquitos?
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