TIGER mosquitoes carrying severe ailments have discovered Spain’s gentle autumn and winter climate excellent for extending their seasonal presence.

The species normally turns into lively in April earlier than disappearing in mid-November, however have been extra prevalent with the upper temperatures.

Alex Richter-Boix from Barcelona’s Pompeu Fabra College stated: “Mosquito observations in November and December in earlier years represented as much as 2% of the annual complete of tiger mosquitoes in Spain.”

“In 2022, the observations of that interval, particularly November, represented nearly 5%- round triple in comparison with a yr earlier,” he added.

“Even if final yr had comparatively few mosquitoes as a result of droughts, the excessive temperatures in November allowed their actions to increase,” confirmed Richter-Boix.

The tiger mosquito transmits probably deadly tropical ailments equivalent to dengue fever, chikungunya or the Zika virus.

It was detected in Spain for the primary time in 2004 and could be very lively through the day.

It normally breeds in containers with stagnant water, equivalent to buckets, pots, and dishes.

The best exercise of the tiger mosquito is concentrated in city areas of the Mediterranean coast and the Balearic Islands.

“Little by little it’s spreading in the direction of the inside and northern provinces and is already current within the Basque Nation, Aragon, Madrid and different areas,“ stated Richter-Boix.

Journey by automobile and lorries are ‘accelerating its unfold in European and Spanish territories as they permit the mosquito to cowl nice distances and colonise municipalities that it will not attain so rapidly by its personal means’.