Mosquitoes stabbing often in cities than in rural areas – NieuwsUit.com

Increased risk sting of a mosquito in the city than in rural areas.

Researchers at Wageningen University in the Netherlands to call people up to and including February 15 via the Muggenradar.nl degree of reporting mosquito nuisance and beaten to death mosquitoes to send for analysis. From 3.500 mosquitoes that are sent in 2014 and 2015 shows that house mosquitoes in the city more than the house mosquitoes bite people who live in rural areas. The researchers also start a crowdfunding action for the development of a Mosquito Radar App. This app can throughout the year registered by preventing mosquitoes and mosquito nuisance and communicated.

Of the dead house mosquito (Culex pipiens) which proved to be sent through voluntary mosquito traps from urban areas through Muggenradar.nl 54 percent it to be molestus-type. Home mosquitoes from sparsely populated areas showed only 32 percent have a molestus mosquito. From these areas were also fewer nuisance alerts. This is because the molestus-type has a preference for human blood, while the other pipiens-type has a preference for birds. In addition molestus mosquito does not go into hibernation, so the risk of contracting a mosquito bite in winter in urban areas is significantly higher than in rural areas.

From January 24 to February 15, 2016 is again possible to send via mosquitoes dead Muggenradar.nl at Wageningen University. Mosquitoes that logged on to the site and submitted correctly, can be included in the study. Participants are told after some time which mosquito species they have sent. We also ask people to report the presence or absence of mosquito nuisance. One of the questions we want to answer the new call is the influence of this particular winter is mosquito activity. First, the extremely warm November and December months, followed by a week with winter conditions.

Crowdfunding Mosquitoes Radar App

Muggenradar.nl is one of the first three projects in the newly launched crowdfunding platform Wageningen University. The researchers Muggenradar.nl ask the audience for a financial contribution to enable the development of a Mosquito Radar App. The App can the Dutch public register year-round mosquito nuisance and submit photos of dead / beaten down mosquitoes. We expect that we can reduce the mosquito nuisance in the Netherlands with the help of the public strongly as we better know where which species occur where they cause nuisance and how changes in climate and the environment influences the presence and activity of mosquitoes. The App is the public, governments and conservationists information about where and when mosquito nuisance occurs or possibly even expected. This Mosquitoes Radar will be a link between scientific knowledge and questions that life in society. (Wageningen UR)

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