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ON the nights of July 28 and August 25, 1942, there were mass migrations of mosquitoes into the camps of the Eighth Army in the Western Desert of Egypt. They became abundant in all tents and vehicles over an area of not less than 75 square miles. They then became scarcer and disappeared after three or four days, when no further specimen could be found.
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GARRETT-JONES, C. A Dispersion of Mosquitoes by Wind. Nature 165, 285 (1950). https://doi.org/10.1038/165285a0
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