Is this merely another folk legend on a par with Mexico's Chupacabre, or is there more to this story?
I journeyed to the far north in order to ascertain the truth. What I discovered were fields filled with rotting corpses of animals killed by the marauding vampire insects. The carnage is unbelievable. Dead animals are rotting everywhere. There are so many that local emergency crews cannot clean them up fast enough. Several humans have been hospitalized by mosquito attacks. So far, no one has died, however. The people in this area are forced to wear heavy protective clothing similar to extra heavy duty beekkeeping outfits. Children are not allowed outdoors at all.
I asked local physician, Dr. Abner Mudbucket, about the attacks on humans. "I've seen seventeen cases so far," he said. "They come in in dire need of a transfusion. It's horrible. If the bloodbank runs out of blood, we are doomed."
Local public health officials are attempting to kill the giant insects by luring them to vats of poisoned cow's blood procured from a nearby slaughterhouse. This attempt has thus far been only modestly successful. One official I spoke with on condition of anonymity had this to say, "We will only be free of these things when the winter freeze kills them all. God help us if they come back next year!"
Will these enormous mosquitoes render Canada's far north uninhabitable? Will health officials be able to eliminate them? Will they migrate south into more populous areas? Will they enter the U.S.? Are they from another planet? Are they some form of sinister biological weapon unleashed against the Canadian population? Can we save the world, or will the mosquitoes kill everything? These questions, so easily asked, are not so easily answered.