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Mosquitoes have been found in Iceland for the first time after the country experienced record-breaking heat this spring.

Insect enthusiast Bjorn Hjaltason encountered the mosquitoes over several nights last week while using wine-soaked ropes to observe moths, local media reported.

Mr Hjaltason found two female mosquitoes and one male which were later confirmed to be Culiseta annulata, one of few species that can successfully survive winter.

Iceland was one of only two mosquito-free havens in the world prior to the discovery, partly due to its cold climate. The only other recorded mosquito-free zone is Antarctica.

The mosquitoes were found in Kjós, a glacial valley to the South West of the Icelandic capital of Reykjavik.

Mr Hjaltason shared the news of his discovery on a Facebook page for local wildlife alongside pictures of the insects, describing "a strange fly on a red wine ribbon", according to Icelandic media.

"I could tell right away that this was something I had never seen before" he said in the post, which was screenshotted and shared by Iceland's Morgunblaðið news site, adding "the last fortress seems to have fallen."

Mr Hjaltason sent the insects to the Icelandic Institute of Natural History to be identified, where entomologist Matthías Alfreðsson confirmed his suspicions.

The species are common across parts of Europe and North Africa but it it isn't clear how they reached Iceland, Alfreðsson told CNN.

Iceland's cold climate and lack of stagnant water in which the insects can breed are key contributors to the country's former lack of mosquitoes, the World Population Review said.

But this year, the country broke multiple records for its high temperatures.

Typically, Iceland rarely experiences highs of more than 20C (68F) in May, and when it does those heatwaves will last for no more than two to three days, its Met Office notes. That threshold was exceeded for 10 consecutive days this year in different parts of the country, though.

Iceland also saw its hottest ever day in May, with temperatures reaching 26.6C (79.8F) at Eglisstaðir Airport.

A June study published by the Global Heat Health Information Network noted that such shifts could have "significant" impacts on delicate ecosystems, which have adapted to the cold climate and are sensitive to temperature shifts.

Last year was the world's hottest on record, and the UN's climate body has established that human influence has "unequivocally" warmed the atmosphere, oceans and land.

Further monitoring will be required in spring to see if the mosquito species has "truly become established in Iceland", Alfreðsson added.

Hjaltason, meanwhile, has speculated on the origin of the specimens he observed.

"One always suspects Grundartangi - it's only about six kilometers from me, and things often arrive with ships and containers, so it's possible something came in that way," he told Morgunblaðið.

"But if three of them came straight into my garden, there were probably more."

Source:https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyz3vv62pgo.amp

We will send them taapiapia to kill them all

Welcome to malaria world Iceland

😁


But it's easy nawww

They should just "flit" the ones they saw
Case closed

Or they should use better slippers 🥱









I doubt it's a Malaria causing mosquito

Something that have been existing in the sh*thole like forever.

Miracle of the century. It must have followed an African.

The world without mosquitoes 🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟 is great, many have died from mosquitoes 🦟 bite

The thought of being mosquito free sounds like heaven to me, oh what I'd give to live there.

iwaeda:
Miracle of the century. It must have followed an African.

Which African goes to Iceland

Check am well Nigerians don enter there because only Ajegunle and isalè Eko mosquito can survive there

There's a first time

Mosquito net biz go start too

Sirmwill:
Which African goes to Iceland

Dey play Nigerians wey full everywhere . Was surprised to see a Nigerian in an Amazon jungle when I visited Brazil last year

No wonder mosquitoes no dey my house again,
So my mosquitoes first me japa

I guess these mosquitoes don't know how to suck blood from humans.

What Tulumbu cannot destroy does not exist.
This man and bad luck sha 😤😭

mmadu4:
Dey play Nigerians wey full everywhere . Was surprised to see a Nigerian in an Amazon jungle when I visited Brazil last year

Ehennnnn

So , as I am going to Pluto next week, I would see a Nigerian?

Welcome welcome welcome people of Iceland to the world of Akom ie malaria

For the first time indeed.

They should come Nigeria the fourth world country and witness first hand where mosquitoes and humans play together, eat and sleep together.

So no mosquito in the airplane that can land in Iceland since all this year's??

These ones are Bill gates mosquitoes, they have been planting them everywhere

Most... the most wicked creature in the world

U sure say no be Devil create those blood-sucking demons called Mosquitos. 😁

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qiy_opo6A5o?si=sfl5PAmLdWjptzR6

Smile, what do they expect when a Nigerian billionaire came to do wedding in Reykjavik?

Ahhhhhhhh, these guys first me reach that place sha.

Nawaoh could it be that it was exported from here ,by the billionaires that recently hanged out there for a wedding...this is no news for niaja .. we live with mosquitoes here

The importers and exporters??

these are not female anopheles na

dix ones don't carry malaria

Ice land is one of most cleanest country in the world

I hope someone can take me there for tourism

Mosquitoes have been found in Iceland for the first time after the country experienced record-breaking heat this spring.

First time or first time in how many years 😏

What a wow. Mosquitoes free country.