Culex Mosquitoes

With the change in season and rise in temperature, culex or common house mosquitoes have made a reappearance across Delhi.

Important points:

  • Warmer temperatures are the main reason for the appearance of these mosquitoes.
  • Their presence is especially felt more in areas around floodplains in East and South Delhi as it is an ideal condition of breeding.
  • Culex mosquitoes are known carriers of Japanese encephalitis, a potentially life-threatening but rare viral disease that causes “acute inflammation” of the brain. They breed in dirty, stagnant water.
  • They can fly up to a distance of 1-1.5 km.
  • Unlike Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, which spread dengue and chikungunya and breed in clean water, culex mosquitoes breed in unclean stagnant water.

SOURCE: THE HINDU,MINT

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