These look like the weeks of waiting, and watching. Hmmm…

Mosquito in her Rocky Lair (March 3, 2013)

Hanging around shivering until spring and the first humans in bathing suits and T-shirts?

Not at all. Feasting on porcupines and deer, is more like it.

Deer Trail and Porcupine Trail Cross in Mosquito Country

Just a short 5 second flight from the warm rock.

By the time the mosquitoes get down the hill to humans, they will have perfected their technique. That’s today’s lesson in humility, I think!