Researchers say Culex lactator is the latest invasive bug to call Florida home. It's not yet known whether it poses a disease risk to humans.
by the researchers inside traps laid throughout southern Miami-Dade County in May 2018. Over the next four years, they and others would capture young and adult samples ofat the same locations. In 2022, the mosquito was found in Collier and Lee counties, which are next to one another, about 100 miles away.Physical examination and genetic testing confirmed the identity of the mosquito, the researchers say. If so, it would be the first documented report of this species inside the U.S.
, as well as the first report of an invasiveso far from its original sightings suggests that it’s surviving and possibly extending its range in FloridaThese mosquitoes are native to the tropics of the Americas, but little else is known about them. We don’t know the hosts they normally feed on or if they have the ability to effectively transmit germs that cause human diseases.
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