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A woman in long sleeves, pants and boots, uses a vacuum tool connected to a box sitting at the foot of a tree in wooded area dotted with ferns. A reporter in long sleeves, pants, and a mosquito net over his face stands by, holding a mic.
Joey Palumbo
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Vermont Public
The Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets runs a program in the summer testing mosquitoes for Eastern equine encephalitis and West Nile virus. The stakes are raised as EEE is detected in more bugs around the state.
Clockwise from left: A customer picks up their ice cream order at the UConn Dairy Bar in Storrs, Conn. (Raquel C. Zaldívar/New England News Collaborative) A trail leading deeper into the Missisquoi National Wildlife Refuge area, near the welcome center in Swanton, Vermont. (Sophie Stephens/Vermont Public) Portland Head Light Lighthouse in Cape Elizabeth, Maine. (Tulley Hescock/Maine Public). A long line of tourists enters the Lobster Pot in Provincetown in 2022. (Jesse Costa/WBUR file photo)
Raquel C. Zaldívar/New England News Collaborative, Sophie Stephens/Vermont Public, Tulley Hescock/Maine Public, Jesse Costa/WBUR file photo
Our public media journalists explored fun things to do on day trips in the states that make up New England. Not a bad assignment.