About 70 percent of the mosquito bites caused by this variant, which was passed last year that they only occurred underground.
This is a study of mosquito experts from the University of Wageningen, which Friday the Dutch Entomologendag is presented.
The researchers studied 581 flat beaten mosquitoes that are sent in the first weeks of September. They also analyzed nearly a thousand observations.
Last year turned out for the first time that the tweelingmug many more people cross that ordinary huissteekmug. That’s because the molestus variant has a strong preference for mammalian blood, while ordinary mosquito bites prefer birds. The molestus variant remains opposed to the ordinary mosquito in winter running.
Mosquitoes can transmit serious diseases such as West Nile virus and dengue fever. Which has so far not occurred in the Netherlands, but researchers and the government keep the emergence of new species of mosquitoes sharp eye
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