How mosquitoes helped swarm the redcoats at Yorktown

[Washington Post]   Major combat operations in the American Revolution ended 229 years ago on Oct. 19, at Yorktown. For that we can thank the fortitude of American forces under George Washington, the siegecraft of French troops of Gen. Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, the count of Rochambeau - and the relentless bloodthirstiness of female Anopheles quadrimaculatus mosquitoes.  Those tiny amazons conducted covert biological warfare against the British army.  More...