“Give Blood” Mosquitoes, flies and ticks connect us to the food chain in most unpleasant ways

By Scott McMillion
Montana Quarterly
Summer, 2008

Here’s something to think about the next time your neck and arms have become an itching, oozing mess.
Or when the whining in your ears makes you think seriously about spending the night in a lake, underwater.
Or when you’re inhaling flies the size of your thumbnail.

Tags: birds, flies, food chain, mosquitoes, ticks, trout
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