Posted on 09/18/2015 6:11:29 AM PDT by Zakeet
The Arctic mosquito, a larger, furrier version of the ubiquitous pests, are getting a longer breeding season as Arctic ponds warmed earlier in the year, researchers from Dartmouth have found.
As a result, the Arctic mosquito, or Aedes nigripes, were in the air bothering humans and wildlife alike earlier in the season, according to a new study published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.
"They absolutely will bite people," lead author Lauren Culler told ABC News today. "They’re active at any time of day. If you’re in the Arctic in the middle of mosquito season, there are hundreds of mosquitoes [that want] a blood meal."
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"Climate change will touch the pillars of our health, food, water and shelter," Dr. Maria Neira, WHO's then-director of public health and environment, told ABC News in 2011. "In Asia, there are more people at risk of dengue fever due to global warming. In Mount Kenya, mosquitoes are being found at higher and higher elevations."
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A couple of years back, the wife and I were hiking in Lake City CO area.
We forgot the bug spray and the Mosquitos ate us alive. I tell my kids when they get an ow-y “I’ve had worse mosquito bites than that!”.
They get tired of hearing that, but in some cases it’s true!!
...and that’s worse than all of the mosquito species hitching rides here from Asia bearing all sorts of nasty tropical diseases WHY exactly?
Went to Fairbanks one summer to do some training for a Business partner and they offered to let me stay in a finished cabin out of town. No problem, map in hand and food in car I proceeded.
Found the cabin no prob, when I red the directions it said key in flowerpot on porch.
As I looked up to get my bearings I heard something tapping on my window. I turned to see a not small cloud of mosquitoes waiting to pounce as I left the car.
20 minutes later I was in the cabin, covered with bites, flower pots ravaged looking for key (last pot of course!) and a few made it in with me.
The last one died about 30 minutes later to where I could rest and eat my now cold food.
They are viscous, The Alaska State Bird I have heard some say...
I was in Alaska once during July. Saw a few and they were far bigger than any I've seen in the Lower 48. Was in a car and moving around a lot so never was attacked too much.
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They are a thick, sticky, slow-flowing liquid? (H/T Webster's Dictionary.)
Those Rocky Mountain mosquitoes drove us from a Colorado campground back in 1987! They were huge!
And I remember some in Utah back in 1955! Huge! all us kids had blood running down their legs from scratching!
I carry a .45 for ticks here in Arkansas.
That’s nothing. I have experienced the same thing in Michigan.
Oooops...
Maybe I had oil on my mind, next time will use spell check
Thanks Brah!
They come out earlier and mate, lay eggs and die earlier. What problem?
“I don’t know the cause, but I’ve been working outside for 40+ years and I’ve been seeing more and more poison ivy in the last 5-6 years than ever before.”
We had a massive multiple front, chemical warfare assault against the poison ivy here last year. The remnants are trying to regroup.
Our side took heavy casuatlies for a period of time.
Two types of mosquitoes in Alaska; the little ones which go through the holes in the screen door and the big ones which rip the screen door off its hinges.
I remember them from the ‘70’s. The locals would take moose turds and pipe cleaners and cobble together “moosequitos” to sell to the tourists.
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