MORE MOSQUITOES

A warmer environment could mean more mosquitoes as it becomes harder for their predators to control the population. Warmer temperatures accelerate development time of larvae, leading to a smaller window of time that dragonflies could eat them, meaning there could be nearly twice as many mosquito larvae making it to adulthood in an area studied along the James River in Richmond. While the mosquito larvae studied there were the North American rock pool mosquito, the findings likely apply to species of mosquito that do act as vectors for diseases like West Nile or even Zika virus.

news.vcu.edu/article/2023/12/hotter-weather-caused-by-climate-change-could-mean-more-mosquitos-according-to-vcu-led-study