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Tiger mosquitoes now everywhere in France after spreading to Normandy (www.rfi.fr)

submitted 7 months ago by alphacyberranger@sh.itjust.works to c/world@lemmy.world

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[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 30 points 7 months ago

is this because of climate change?

[-] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 72 points 7 months ago

Yes. Cold winters kill these mosquitos, and winters are not that cold anymore.

[-] victorz@lemmy.world 16 points 7 months ago

Happily living in northern Sweden until I have to migrate further north to avoid these fuckers. Regular mosquitos are bad enough here as it is during the summer.

Are... are tiger mosquitos worse than regular ones?

[-] banghida@lemm.ee 12 points 7 months ago

Tiger mosquitos bite during the day as well. They are also quite good at hiding and finding a trace of shade where they will hide until you stop looking for it. Bites sometimes proper hurt too.

[-] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 17 points 7 months ago

These ones can carry malaria and dengue. Climate change means tropical diseases move north too, and these mosquitos are their highway.

[-] banghida@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago

Yeah, we have them for a decade here in Dalmatia.

[-] jimbolauski@lemm.ee -5 points 7 months ago

Tiger mosquitoes have been in the US since they hitched a ride in a tire from China in the 80's, before algore invented the internet or global warming. The cold weather didn't stop them from invading Michigan, new york, Pennsylvania, Vermont, new Hampshire....

[-] MrBusiness@lemmy.zip -1 points 7 months ago

Was this according to someone's grandpappie?

[-] jimbolauski@lemm.ee 7 points 7 months ago

The Asian tiger mosquito entered the United States in shipments of used tires from northern Asia in the mid-1980s.

https://cisr.ucr.edu/invasive-species/asian-tiger-mosquito

[-] GiveMemes@jlai.lu 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Lmao love how people downvote the guy with knowledge because they think they're arbiter of all migrations of invasive species or something lmao

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