This Was the Last Mosquito-Free Nation on the Planet. Then the Bloodsuckers Arrived.

This Was the Last Mosquito-Free Nation on the Planet. Then the Bloodsuckers Arrived.

Climate change and human-made shelters have created survivable habitat for the cold-adapted mosquito species Culiseta annulata.

Mosquitoes Discovered in Iceland for 1st Time

REYKJAVIK (AFP-Jiji) — Mosquitoes have been discovered in Iceland in a first for the island nation, which has long been one of the world’s mosquito-free places, a researcher told AFP on Monday.

NPR Is Wrong, Iceland’s Mosquitoes Are Imports, Not Climate Refugees - ClimateRealism

In NPR’s article, “Mosquitoes appear in Iceland for the first time, as climate warms,” reporter Joe Hernandez claims that climate change is bringing mosquitoes to Iceland for the first time in recorded history. Hernandez describes how three Culiseta annulata mosquitoes were discovered near Reykjavík, suggesting that global warming is making Iceland less frigid and thus newly hospitable to these insects. This is false. Mosquitoes don’t naturally …