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One or two mosquitoes in the room are a nuisance.

Their whiny buzz is enough to keep one wide awake for hours, scared to show even a slither of skin and plotting a murderous swatting rampage.

Try having a million little whiners whizzing about for months at a time, the Ozzies down under are saying.

We do not know what suffering is compared to the folks living in New South Wales, where a surging mosquito population has been descending upon farms following devastating floods that hit the area.

A farmer in the area shared a video of a massive swarm of mosquitoes outside her house, which Yahoo! News notes was so thick one could barely see past the porch.

The video was taken on October 31, when farmer and wool classer Nicole Fragar’s mother opened the door to let the cat out, only to be met by the overwhelming cloud of mozzies:

CLOUD OF MOSQUITOS: A farmer in New South Wales, Australia, captured mosquitoes swarming her porch amid heavy rain and flooding in the region. pic.twitter.com/33pKQVuntG

— CBS News (@CBSNews) November 17, 2022

No amount of late-night mozzie-murder plotting will save you in this instance. Unless you know how to use a flamethrower?

Frager says that while the insects usually come out after flooding events, her dad, who has lived at the farm (around 59 kilometres from the town of Tottenham) for around 30 years, has “never seen mosquitoes quite like this”.

She said that the floods have been soaking the family farm for several months and when there’s heavy rain, the grass grows and creates fertile grounds for mosquito breeding:

“We’ve had about four inches of rain for four days,” she said. “Once the rain stopped, all the mozzies came out with a vengeance.”

The morning after the video was taken, Fragar’s porch was littered with “piles of mozzies” — the ones that had died the night before, she said.

The mozzies have abated a bit, but they reappear as soon as the floods come in.

The only thing Frager and everyone else can really do is wear long pants and long sleeves as mosquito products are basically sold out at this stage:

New South Wales’ mosquito problem has swelled to a point where some towns in New South Wales are running out of repellents, post-bite gels, mosquito patches, and essential oils…

Fragar said her family had to visit three different stores before they found a can of repellent.

Itchy skin aside, their main concern is the cattle, chickens, and dogs on the farm, which can’t exactly come inside or put long pants on to protect themselves from the insects.

One of the farm’s youngest calves died from the sheer number of mosquito bites on its body, and Frager is worried this trend will continue.

[source:yahoo]