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For the first time since he began managing the Beachcomber Campground on Ocracoke, Sean Death has had to ask his employees to dust the bug spray bottles on the still-full shelves. My display is still full. Yes, there are some, but dramatically fewer than in recent memory. There even have been dramatic mosquito reductions on Portsmouth Island, noted Rudy Austin, who takes visitors to that island, and on mainland Hyde County.

Even the NPS campground on Ocracoke, notorious for lots of mosquitoes, reports a relative lack of the pests. I was here last year and it was much worse last year.

This lack of mosquitoes so far this year is also being noticed in Dare County, where mosquito-spraying trucks are making many fewer trips through neighborhoods than in past summers.

But, he gave a possible explanation — the mosquito eggs are dormant because of lower than normal tides.

He explained that mosquitoes lay their eggs high in the salt grasses and black needle rushes with the expectation that the rising tide will dip them into the water where the eggs will hatch into larvae then pupae then to adult when they emerge and go on their blood-sucking quests. The eggs are covered with a waxy substance to withstand dry conditions. Beaver Tillett, an islander whose job it has been for the last several years to drive the bug-spraying truck, has only been out four times this year.

He suggests something else as to the relative lack of mosquitoes. He has been doing this for the last three years. Perhaps the island is seeing the result of this work, he said. Moreover, the island has not had the weather conditions certain kinds of mosquitoes love. We had a cooler-than-normal spring and fewer days in the 90s this summer. The mosquitoes people are fending off now are hatched in standing fresh water. He also said the summer is not over, and the island might not enjoy this mosquito respite for much longer.

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  Most towns on the OBX have mosquito control once a week during the summer to keep the mosquito population down. It helps a lot. Report inappropriate content. Bugs will be found all over but Nags Head is not as bad as other places, mainly because there are very little trees and very little marshes. south Nags Head.