Six year old Lukas had fun outside this past weekend.

"We were around the lake and I was hiding behind the logs and there was a bug," says Lukas.

But now he has plenty of itchy mosquito bites to show for it.

"He was up at his family's cabin this weekend and got some bites and he does have quite a reaction to it,” says his babysitter Megan Beer.

These bad mosquito bites have taken many by surprise, because of the overall drought conditions. But bug experts say any bout of rain like the kind we had a few weeks ago can create perfect wet breeding grounds.

“There's no mosquito that is infamous for the ones that are causing worse reactions. It could be as I said the ones that are messing with people are ones that haven't seen in awhile," says Phil Pelletteri, an entomologist at UW-Madison.

While many people are experiencing bigger, redder bumps than usual, doctors say they will get better soon.

“There's actually a good thing in the immune response that later in the summer you develop a tolerance for it and you don't react to it the same way you do early in the season,” says Dr. Martin Voss, a local allergist.

Voss says bug spray and over the counter anti-itch creams should do the trick to ward off the pests and make you feel better.

But if that doesn't help, this baby sitter has a secret defense.

“Ice cream helps with the itching,” says Beer. “Just to keep his mind off of it."

Remember, experts say drain any standing water on your property to keep from giving mosquitoes a place to breed. And you might want to put on the bug spray containing deet to keep from getting bites.