Earlier this month we published an article on dengue fever and 7 top tips to avoid it. We couldn’t have picked a better topic as today the Telegraph has reported that the Asian tiger mosquito, Aedes albopictus, may be heading for the UK.
The mozzie has already been reported in France and Belgium and the fear is that it could be heading north. With warmer and wetter winters the UK habitat has become a lot more appealing. Scientists led by Dr Samantha Martin, from the University of Liverpool, used climate models to predict how changing conditions might affect Asian tiger mosquito distribution. They wrote in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface: ‘‘Mosquito climate suitability has significantly increased over the southern UK, northern France, the Benelux, parts of Germany, Italy, Sicily and the Balkan countries.”
The research shows that parts of the UK could become hot-spots of Asian tiger mosquito activity between 2030 and 2050. It could easily survive in water butts and vases, as well as greenhouses.

