#culex — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #culex, aggregated by home.social.
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💁🏻♀️ TIL: #Google’s Debug program, with #Monash University and #mosquito control districts, applied for an #EPA permit to release 64 million male #Culex mosquitoes in #California and #Florida. 🦟
The males carry #Wolbachia #bacteria, making their offspring non-viable. Only females bite, so no biting mosquitoes are added. 🦠
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Association of avian #biodiversity and #WNV circulation in #Culex mosquitoes in Emilia-Romagna, #Italy, https://etidiohnew.blogspot.com/2026/03/association-of-avian-biodiversity-and.html
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Detection of #WNV, #USUV and #Insect-Specific #Bunyaviruses in #Culex spp. Mosquitoes, #Greece, 2024, https://etidiohnew.blogspot.com/2025/10/detection-of-wnv-usuv-and-insect.html
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Researchers document mosquito species in Puerto Rico that launches eggs aerially, one at a time, into the pools of water that collect between bracts of a plant. See figure 2. Seriously, see figure 2. So cool. #PuertoRico #mosquito #diptera #culex #oviposition #nature #heliconiaceae https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-15955-0
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#Household #expenditure on control of #urban #mosquitoes #Aedes albopictus and #Culex pipiens in #Emilia-Romagna, Northern #Italy https://journals.plos.org/plosntds/article?id=10.1371/journal.pntd.0012552
Control activities that lower the #mosquito #density in both private and public areas could reduce the use of household #insecticides in urban environments and the related costs, and the risk of spread of imported #arboviruses as well.
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#Oropouche #Fever, #Cuba, May 2024, Emerg Infect Dis.: https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/30/10/24-0900_article
Phylogenetic analyses showed that virus responsible for a May 2024 Oropouche fever #outbreak in Cuba was closely related to viruses from #Brazil in 2023. Pools of Ceratopogonidae spp. biting #midges and #Culex quinquefasciatus #mosquitoes were positive for Oropouche viral RNA. No cases were severe. Virus extension to new areas may increase case numbers and severity.
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The First Isolation of #Insect-Specific #Alphavirus (Agua Salud alphavirus) in #Culex (Melanoconion) #Mosquitoes in the Brazilian #Amazon https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/16/9/1355
This study is the first report on insect-specific alphavirus isolation in Brazil and the first-ever description of Agua Salud alphavirus isolation within Amazon Forest remnants.
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Raft of mosquito eggs in one of my Bti honeypots. I think it's a Culex. Not sure whether species ID is possible — Pennsylvania has at least four species in the genus. But can rule out Culex erraticus because they oviposit onto margins of aquatic leaves in a very distinctive pattern. #mosquitoes #biology #nature #entomology #diptera #insects #culex
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#Virulence and #transmission vary between #Usutu virus #lineages in #Culex pipiens https://journals.plos.org/plosntds/article?id=10.1371/journal.pntd.0012295
Therefore, we found evidence of lineage-specific differences in vectorial capacity and virulence to both the vector and vertebrate host which lead to balanced propagation of both viral lineages.
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Timely report during a late #summer #heatwave in the #UK
#mosquitoes #westnilevirus #culex #infectiousdiseases #IDMastodon #medicine #ClimateChange
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A free-flying male #Culex quinquefasciatus mosquito in slow-motion (~20k images per second), enjoy!
#mosquitoes #highspeedcamera #slowmotion #insects #diptera #wings #flies
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In a #replicated, #controlled #experiment on wild-caught #Culex spp. #mosquitoes, Thormeyer and Tseng (2023) found no effect of #microplastics at either high doses of at field-relevant doses.
Quote: “Overall, our results showed that doses of 200 or 20,000 #particles per ml of 4.8–5.8 μm polystyrene beads had no effect on the #body #size, #development, or #growth #rate of Cx #pipiens or Cx #tarsalis.”
Paper 🔗 https://doi.org/10.1093/jme/tjad014
Explainer 🔗 https://entomologytoday.org/2023/03/02/study-microplastic-consumption-mosquitoes/
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Quelle joie de voir que l'émoi provoqué par la présence d'un #moustique chez soi en janvier stimule ainsi la curiosité scientifique et l'imagination! 🤗
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s15EIvJT0dg
Chère Fanny, certaines espèces de moustiques, notamment les "moustiques communs" du genre #Culex (Culex pipiens, Culex torrentium...), survivent depuis toujours à l'hiver au stade adulte en cherchant refuge dans nos maisons ou d'autres abris. 1/3
