Species
Aedes aegypti: the watchlist mosquito Europe keeps testing for
The tiger mosquito gets the headlines, but the mosquito public-health teams in Europe truly worry about is its cousin: Aedes aegypti, the yellow fever mosquito, the world's most efficient urban vector of dengue, Zika and chikungunya. It is not established across the European mainland, and keeping it that way is a standing surveillance project involving ports, airports, traps and a lot of quiet reporting. Here is what the watchlist status really means, and why a household's container habits are part of it.
Read →Iceland just lost its mosquito-free status. Three insects on a red wine rope did the work.
Three *Culiseta annulata* mosquitoes caught on a red-wine-soaked rope at Kiðafell in the Kjós valley on the night of 16 October 2025 mark the first wild mosquitoes ever recorded in Iceland. The species is a cold-hardy nuisance biter and has not been tied to human outbreaks in Europe.
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