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Jessica Damiano's award-winning garden blog gets to the root of things.

Extreme cold weather has a silver lining

Looking for a reason to stop cursing the dang cold? You might be freezing your tootsies off today, but come July, you might be grateful for the Arctic snap you endured way back in January.

Laura C. Harrington, professor of entomology and an expert on mosquito-borne diseases, explains:  "Cold weather, especially extreme cold temperatures, limit survival of mosquitoes and other...

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