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I have city kids make comic books to create a buzz about mosquitoes and ecology

  • Written by Katherine Richardson Bruna, Professor, Sociocultural Studies of Education, Iowa State University
imageCampers at the "Mosquitoes & Me" summer camp in Des Moines, Iowa, learn about mosquito science through hands-on outdoor activities. Katherine R. Bruna, CC BY-ND

If humans and mosquitoes had a battle at the end of the world, who would win? That’s the question I pose to 30 young kids each summer during a two-week camp called “Mosquitoe...

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