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Iceland - not enough ice
October 27, 2025
|The Mercury
WHIINE! Slap! Whine, whine! Slap, slap! Whine, whine! whine! Short squirt of insecticide!
Alas, for the first time ever, the far north country of Iceland has been invaded by mosquitoes, according to the BBC. This was after 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. (The fun things these insect fundis get up to!) Hjaltason found two female mosquitoes and one male, which were later confirmed to be Culiseta annulata, one of the few species that can survive a winter.
Iceland was one of only two mosquito-free havens in the world prior to the discovery, mostly due to its cold climate. The only other recorded mosquito-free zone is Antarctica.
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