BendiNewsTest: 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.