While mosquitoes never go away, we are entering the months where they could be at their worst. 🦟🛞 Check out the basics of mitigation around your house here, and then read more on mosquitoes in Alabama (and the invasive Asian tiger mosquito):
That animal, if it's female, would like nothing better than to suck up so much of your blood that her abdomen distends and swells more than twice its normal size, giving her enough nutrients to create around 200 eggs. After a day or two of digestion, she can deposit those eggs in any handy source of standing water, and in a little more than a week, both she and her children will be on the hunt, searching out another meal to keep the cycle going.
Though there are many species of mosquito, not all of them are after your blood, he said. Male mosquitoes do not feed on blood. That's only necessary for females who are preparing to lay eggs. Some are vectors for diseases like malaria, dengue fever, yellow fever, and West Nile virus. Some carry the diseases but haven't been shown to transmit them to humans. Some are non-carriers.One of Alabama's most annoying and blood-thirsty species wasn't even found in this hemisphere 40 years ago. Mathias said the Asian tiger mosquito , is an invasive, imported species that didn't reach the southeast United States until the mid-1980s.
Unlike some species of mosquitoes, which prefer deep woods, the Asian tiger mosquito feels right at home in suburban areas and prefers feeding on mammals, especially those who live in two-story ranch houses with clogged gutters, stagnant bird baths or flower pots that collect water laying around. It has distinctive black and white strips on its legs and body, with a white stripe down its back.
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