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May 11, 2009

Speaking of mosquitos

Speaking of mosquitos and gadgets to discourage them: There are weather predictions, and now there are mosquito predictions.

If you go to The Weather Channel's Web site at weather.com and click on the tab marked "Health," you can type in your zip code and get a prediction for mosquito activity for the next 24 hours, ranging from "none" to "very high."

There is also plenty of mosquito information, including how to avoid making yourself a "mosquito magnet" and the true risks of West Nile virus.

(There is plenty of information here for a science report or a home-school lesson, too.)

Photo credit: AP Photo/Great Falls Tribune/ Robin Loznak

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About Susan Reimer

Susan Reimer has spent 16 years writing about raising kids - among other topics - in her column for The Baltimore Sun. And every time son Joseph or daughter Jessie passed another milestone - driver's license, college, wedding or a move to a new military duty station - she has planted another garden. Now she will be writing about those gardens - and yours - here on Garden Variety.

Susan isn't an expert gardener, but she wasn't an expert mother, either. Both - the kids and the gardens - seem to be doing well in spite of her.

She lives in Annapolis with her husband, Gary Mihoces, who loves to cut his grass but has noticed that there seems to be less of it every time the kids pass another milestone.

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