 They spend 45 minutes outside in a park or in a backyard getting bitten by the little bloodsuckers, so we don't have to. Bless their hearts. Kylie and her friends try to catch some of the insects in nets and then bring them back to scientists for study. The Twin Cities has more than 80,000 acres of wetlands, which means we've got a lot of mosquitoes. So thank you to Kylie and her crew for being mosquito magnets. The Star Tribune did an interesting story. It's in today's editions.