Asian Tiger mosquitoes

Local authorities intercept exotic mosquitoes:

"Authorities have prevented a possible Dengue mosquito establishing in the NT by intercepting cargo carrying exotic mosquitoes at a Darwin port facility.

The Department of Health and Community Services (DHCS) and the Australian Quarantine Inspection Service (AQIS) last week intercepted the importation of Asian tiger mosquitoes in cargo unloaded at the East Arm port."

This is an article from 2003 so we have been on the ball trying to keep these Asian Tiger mosquitoes at bay. They have got as far as the Torres Strait Islands:


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and in 2001 the University of Florida predicted they would spread and become a problem as a result of global warming:

University Of Florida Scientists Say Global Warming Could Spread Mosquito

Given this mosquito can carry diseases such as dengue fever, Ross River fever and Japanese encephalitis , we don't want it. We can't light little smoke fires to dissuade it because the cure might be worse than the insect given our history of bush fires. Hope our ecologists can find a way to stamp it out since they predict it could come south because it doesn't mind cooler climates. Well, it's not invited and I mind.