BendiNewsTest: Climate change is making Arctic mosquitoes hatch earlier and grow faster than ever before

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Friday, September 18, 2015

Climate change is making Arctic mosquitoes hatch earlier and grow faster than ever before

In Alaska, many residents have joked for years that mosquito is the state bird – referring both to the size of the insect as well as its prevalence. Climate change could make that much less of a joke, though. A new study from Dartmouth College Dickey Center’s Institute of Arctic Studies suggests that warming temperatures in the Arctic are having a profound effect on mosquito populations, causing them to emerge earlier and grow faster, leading to an increased threat to the caribou they feed upon.