Record-breaking December heat could have a huge impact on local wildlife

AUSTIN (KXAN) — This month's unusually warm weather may have made heading outdoors a little more bearable, but people aren't the only ones out enjoying the weather.
"I've been getting tons of mosquito complaints lately," says entomologist Wizzie Brown with Texas A&M's Agrilife Extension Service. "People were just like, 'Its December, why are the mosquitoes out?' and I'm like, 'It's 80 degrees, they're gonna be out.'"Brown says that by this time of the year, many insects and animals sho