Our Newest Attraction in the Miami of Minnesota! We know… You’re probably wondering how that’s possible. Well, we’ve got a special place on the Mississippi River called Mosquito Island, and we don’t know if it’s because of aliens or radiation or what, but the mosquitoes there got really, really big. Like, really big.

The Miami of Minnesota? See, that’s a little joke because we are officially the warmest city in Minnesota and we sit on the border right where Miami is in Florida. Plus we have beaches – lots of them thanks to the beautiful Mississippi River.

The tongue in cheek campaign caught the attention of one Post Bulletin reader who wrote in to the paper’s ‘Answer Man’ column to find out why Winona, a city of roughly 30,000 in Southeastern Minnesota, has claimed this moniker.

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Early Monday, several mosquitoes left Mosquito Island, a holding area for the giant insects, and instead of reporting to Levee Park for work, began flying over the city. Witnesses say that the bugs were swooping down on unsuspecting people and carrying them away as horrified bystanders looked on.

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