u/CommieGhost

Agreed, probably better than risking looking like one of these, which is the effect too-slim pants can create sometimes.

Honestly, your comment really is exactly the kind of ecologically ignorant visceral reaction they were referring to, with shallow rationalization on top to boot.

EDIT: To expand on this: Mosquitos larvae are a crucial component to freshwater ecosystems, serving as prey to predatory animals and hosts to microbiota, parasytic or otherwise. Adult mosquitos are also an important food component to a number of invertebrates and vertebrates, act as ecosystem engineers responding to microclimate variations, and are crucial in the lifecycles of a number of parasytic organisms - which is a good thing. Brain-eating amoebas, Giardia and Plasmodium are as much a part of the ecosystem as pandas, capybaras or buttleflies, and the ick 95% of you are feeling right now after reading this is exactly what u/-Knockabout was referring to. Human-caused environmental disturbances are not an excuse to ignore that!

Does this mean I think mosquitos are more important than people or that I enjoy getting stabbed in the legs for half the year? Of course not - I spent years living in the Amazon and still do field work in the jungle yearly, and I don't want to catch fucking Dengue either. But the fact is that a numerically insignificant proportion of mosquito species are directly harmful to humans. People hate mosquitos and fantasize about exterminating all of them because they are annoying, but then 1) so are crying babies, and I don't dropkick random children when I'm in the supermarket, and 2) being annoying can be ecologically important by itself.

What isn't normal is to condense five of those consecutively into three months.

In the OP there were three in three months, plus the second that took four weeks, and the first that took three weeks. Don't know where you're getting five in three months from.

EDIT: Which is not to say the story isn't fishy of course, but you seem to have miscounted in this particular point.