Just for Laurie.....

[Woolly Bugger]

http://www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/conditions/06/26/west.nile.virus.ap/index.html
West Nile....
It also depends on birds -- robins and house sparrows, to be exact. Forget the dying crows that became notorious in West Nile's early days. How mosquitoes feed on these smaller backyard birds seems more important in determining how much virus circulates in communities -- especially in July and August, the disease's worst months.