"In the Fowl River’s case, unusually high tides slowed floodwaters as they went downstream to drain. This increased the water’s depth and flooded a wide expanse — even several miles upstream. The result was deluged roads, washed out cars and damaged houses from a flood that was larger, deeper and longer-lasting due to #RisingSeas."
#Mosquitoes are swarming around Houston. The future could bring even more.
"After flood-inducing rain pummeled much of #Texas over the past few weeks, another sort of inundation is now swamping the Houston region: Mosquitoes. Lots of them. More than many longtime residents can ever remember.
In tests last week, between 50 and 70 mosquitoes a minute were landing on staffers in some spots in Harris County, Vigilant said."
I took a photo of the first frog in our (messy) little pond from a distance and didn't notice until just now on the computer that it’s got mosquitoes on it??
Bummer!
A health worker releases mosquitoes infected with the Wolbachia bacteria, which are expected to block the spread of dengue fever, in Sao Francisco Xavier cemetery in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. REUTERS/Pilar Olivares
Dhaka women suffer more when climate change worsens the dengue situation
"Lamiya's case explains how healthcare is inaccessible for the poor in Dhaka.
Many women sacrifice their health to save household incomes. And the consequences are worse when climate change intensifies vector-borne diseases like dengue across the densely populated capital."
"Roughly 4.7 million people have been infected with #dengue fever so far in 2024, an explosion of cases centered in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Heavy precipitation from El Nino and the ongoing effects of human-driven climate change have fostered conditions in which #mosquitoes that carry the disease can thrive."
New research by the World Mosquito Program (WMP) and the University of Antioquia, published today in PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, shows dengue cases have dropped to the lowest level in 20 years across Colombia’s Aburrá Valley following large-scale releases of Wolbachia mosquitoes....
A Mosquito is flying in November.
When I find out-of-season mosquitoes flying without power, I remember what my mother used to say.
She called them "pitty mosquito''.
(憐れ蚊-aware-ka in Japanese)
So I don't kill(殺生-sesshou) the mosquito floating in front of me.
🦟🐸 New fun paper uncover the unique hearing mechanisms in a frog-biting mosquito! Uranotaenia lowii (a mosquito) females use frog calls to locate hosts for blood meals. 🎶🔍 #Mosquitoes#FrogCommunication
"Dengue fever will become a major threat in the southern United States, southern Europe and new parts of Africa this decade, the WHO's chief scientist said...as warmer temps create the conditions for the #mosquitoes carrying the infection to spread...
Other than enabling the dinosaurs 🦖 and Jurassic Park to return... what is the purpose of mosquitoes 🦟?!?!? Why should we not annihilate these most annoying bloodsucking creatures?!?!? 🤔💥
#Mosquitoes Are a Growing Public Health Threat, Reversing Years of Progress
#ClimateCrisis and the rapid evolution of the insect have helped drive up malaria deaths and brought dengue and other mosquito-borne viruses to places that never had to worry about them.
Heute wieder im #Wald. Pilze Fehlanzeige, dafür #Mücken der aggressivsten Sorte! Es ging hinterher so weit, dass ich die Bekleidung mit #Mückenspray eingenebelt hab, weil die Biester durch die Hosenbeine gestochen haben! Dabei hätte ich mir gerne für diesen einen besonderen und raren #Pilz etwas mehr Zeit genommen. Er ist wohl essbar, wie auch die engl. Bezeichnung verrät, aber weil er selten ist und mir die Mücken so zugesetzt haben durfte er stehen bleiben.
FISTULINA HEPATICA 'Leberreischling' oder engl. 'Beefsteak Fungus'
In the forest again today. No mushrooms, but #mosquitoes of the most aggressive kind! It went so far afterwards that I sprayed my clothes with #mosquitospray because the beasts bit through my trouser legs! I would have liked to have taken a bit more time for this special and rare #fungus. It is edible, as the English name suggests, but because it is rare and the mosquitoes gave me such a hard time, it was left behind.
Dengue cases drop to 20-year low following large-scale releases of Wolbachia mosquitoes in the Aburrá Valley, Colombia (www.nzdoctor.co.nz)
New research by the World Mosquito Program (WMP) and the University of Antioquia, published today in PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, shows dengue cases have dropped to the lowest level in 20 years across Colombia’s Aburrá Valley following large-scale releases of Wolbachia mosquitoes....
The late-summer itch: Ankle-biting mosquitoes are in extra full force in L.A. Why? (www.latimes.com)
You're not imagining it. Fortunately, there are some DIY ways to keep the critters out of your house off and off your skin.