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Averasboro Gallinipper

The Averasboro Gallinipper is one of North Carolina’s strangest fearsome-critters: a hawk-sized mosquito said to haunt the swamps around old Averasboro, drain a man dry in one feeding, and preserve in folklore the exaggerated terror of southern mosquitoes, work-camp boasting, and older giant-insect traditions.