Big snow falls, warm temperatures, and strong winds covers snow surface with a variety of seeds from trees.
This season the birch pollen has been particularly bad. Some people with asthma have had to leave the state. The peak was May 18 when pollen counts were 974 grains per cubic meter.
I was watching a flock of redpolls at my feeder when I noticed one unusual member with a huge white body. See photo.
"I am seeing spittlebugs deposits everywhere I look in the Sand Lake area."
Spruce beetles damaged nearly 600,000 acres of forest in 2018, and the damage continues to grow.
In Anchorage, the city logged 68 bed bug complaints in 2013, a decrease from the 84 in 2012. There was just one complaint in 2007 and 2008 combined, according to city data.
Each spring, it seems, the air of Alaska is filled with the buzz of mosquitoes and the whines of people declaring that this is undoubtedly the worst bug season they've ever experienced. This year they may have a case.
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