Enviroguard Pest Guides
Mosquitoes
| Mosquito (Culiseta annulata) Appearance • A thin fly with narrow wings and pale bands on long fragile legs. • Female has well-developed mouthparts for piercing skin. • Body length, not including mouthparts, 6-7mm. • Leg length 13-14 mm; wing span 13-15 mm. |
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• Only the female feeds on blood - both indoors and outdoors.
• The water in which eggs, larvae and pupae are to be found can be fresh, brackish, clean or polluted, and includes ponds, marshes, water butts and cisterns.
• Overwinters, and, unlike most other mosquitoes, is known to bite in urban areas early and late in the year.
• Bites can cause intense irritation, swelling and redness, and, in some cases, severe skin eruption and localised pain.
Overview
There have been more than 30 species identified in Britain, but none of our native mosquitoes are known to currently transmit any infections, and are more an irritating nuisance that a serious threat to health. Although mosquitoes occasionally transmit viruses in other parts of Europe, the risk of transmission of these viruses in Britain is, for the moment, considered low. This is not the case in other parts of the world, however, where the Anopheles mosquito is the main vector for malaria, and the Aedes mosquito important in the transmission of yellow fever and dengue fever. Worryingly, some experts predict that the rise in global temperatures, coupled with the increase in global travel, may see the return of malaria to the warmer parts onf Britain, particularly around river estuaries and low-lying marshy areas. (See Enviroguard Mosquito Control.)
Read more at the British Pest Control Association.
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