Mosquitoes Invade Iceland: Climate Change?
Iceland, previously mosquito-free, reports Culiseta annulata sightings. Climate change and air travel are suspected factors for the insects' arrival in the Nordic island.
Male mosquitoes sometimes suck, too
A graduate student in entomologist Jason Rasgon’s lab at Penn State noticed that some male mosquitoes would sometimes feed on blood through a thin artificial membrane when researchers dropped the humidity and took away their usual nectar meals.