[HowardStark]

Nothing killed my dream of a private island in Alaska quite so fast as elephant mosquitoes[0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxorhynchites_rutilus

[gruez]

>Tx. rutilus feeding behaviors make them strikingly different from a typical mosquito. Both adult males and females are strictly nectar-feeding and so they do not have a role in the transmission of pathogens to animals as in other mosquitoes.[7] Instead, their larvae are predacious and could potentially help curb the spread of diseases via vector mosquitoes. While they commonly prey on copepods, rotifers, ostracods, and chironomids, they also generally have a preference for certain species of mosquito larvae including common disease vectors such as Aedes albopictus, Aedes aegypti, and Aedes polynesiensis.

what's the issue?

[capitainenemo]

The wikipedia article you linked to says that the adults of that species feed only on nectar and do not suck blood.

[dredmorbius]

... and have a range largely in the south-eastern United States.

Which isn't quite where Alaska is located.

[mike978]

In my experience Black flies[1] and no-see-ums[2] are far worse (not counting mosquitoes born disease). It's like a massive angry cloud of micro horseflies that intend to dismember you bite by bite.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_fly [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceratopogonidae

[nealabq]

The Blackfly song has it right then? Thank you National Film Board of Canada: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f389hIxZAOc

[capitainenemo]

FWIW black flies are also disease carriers.