Mosquitoes Have Started Appearing in One of The Last Places on Earth Without Them
Mosquitoes Have Started Appearing in One of The Last Places on Earth Without Them
Environment
22 October 2025
By AFP
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Culiseta annulata is one of the largest mosquito species. (coopder1/Getty Images)
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 Monday.
Three Culiseta annulata mosquitoes, two females and one male, were sighted around 30 kilometres (20 miles) north of the capital Reykjavik, according to Matthias Alfredsson, an entomologist at the Natural Science Institute of Iceland.
"They were all collected from wine ropes… aimed at attracting moths," the researcher said in an email, referring to a method of adding sugar to heated wine and dipping ropes or strips of fabric into the solution, which are then hung outside to entice the sweet-toothed insects.
Along with Antarctica, Iceland has long been one of the few places on Earth without a mosquito population.
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