Beth Shapiro

It was warm and hot.

And there are so many mosquitoes.

One of the times I was out in Taimyr, the north central Taimyr Peninsula, and we had brought with us this weird tent that we'd set up so that we could go inside and take the masks off of our face because you always have to wear a hood.

Otherwise, you'll be breathing mosquitoes.

And we were going outside and playing this game where we would just clap our hands in front of our face and then count how many you killed.

And one time I killed something like 35 mosquitoes in one clap.

And it's just awful.

It's miserable.

Well, it depends the time of year.

And early in the season, they're really big and you can catch them fast.

And then they get different species come out that are smaller and smaller.

And toward the end of the season, they're really tiny.

Once I was up in the north of Alaska on the Ickpickpuck River, we were floating down the river looking for mammoth bones and tusks and things like that.

And it had been windy for the first few days, so it was fine.

And this was my first time out in the field, actually.

It was northern Alaska.

And I was like, these mosquitoes.

People keep telling me there's mosquitoes.

They're full of shit.

There's no mosquitoes out here.