clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy πΈπͺππ°ππ
Party-pooper fact-check in the next comment, but here's the story as it was told to me when I was on Iceland:
There is a lake some ways from Akureyri called MΓ½vatn ("mosquito water"), and the island in the middle is a flourishing green only because mosquitoes fly out there, breed and die, their bodies fertilizing and contributing to the topsoil over the volcanic rock.
It's in effect a vampire island.
clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy πΈπͺππ°ππ
Party pooper fact check after I have been carrying this fantastic story with me for most of my life:
There are no mosquitoes on Iceland. None. There is no mosquito species with a lifecycle that fits the climate. That's a pretty fantastic and cool fact on its own, though.
snopes.com/fact-check/no-mosquβ¦
MΓ½vatn means "midge lake", close enough, but according to random hiking tourists on the web, the vast vast majority of midges on Iceland are non-biting ones.
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