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Has climate change brought mosquitoes to Iceland?

Mosquitoes were detected in Iceland for the first time this month, resulting in the country losing its status as one of the only places in the world without them. The findings were confirmed by the country’s national science institute on Monday.

This follows record-breaking heat this past summer, which has sped up the glacial melting in the country.

On October 16, insect enthusiast Bjorn Hjaltason posted on a Facebook group Skordýr og Nytjadýr Á Íslandi (Insects in Iceland) that he had spotted mosquitoes in Kidafell, Kjos at dusk that day.

He said he had caught some using a red wine ribbon, a trap using sweetened wine as bait to attract insects. Kjos is a glacial valley around 52km (32 miles) northeast of the Icelandic capital Reykjavik.

Hjaltason sent the mosquitoes to the Natural Science Institute of Iceland, where entomologist Matthias Alfredsson confirmed they were indeed mosquitoes.

Not to go conspiracy theory, but, how do we know that the mosquitos weren’t brought into Iceland by Warmists in order to scaremonger in cult?

Alfredsson identified the mosquitoes as belonging to the Culiseta annulata species. This cold-resistant species is native to the Palearctic, which refers to Europe, North Africa and most of Asia north of the Himalayas. The Cuilseta annulata are not known to carry disease, but are generally considered a nuisance.

Did ‘climate change’ magically transport the mosquitos to Iceland?

Before mosquitoes were spotted this month, the closest they had come to Iceland was in the 1980s, when biologist Gisli Mar Gislason spotted one inside his aeroplane that had arrived at Keflavík International Airport from Greenland. The mosquito is preserved at the Icelandic Institute of Natural History.

Huh

In a statement, the Natural Science Institute said it is unclear how these particular mosquitoes came to be in Iceland. However, it added: “It is likely that it was transported by freight. It is uncertain whether it has settled here permanently, but everything indicates that it can survive in Icelandic conditions.”

So, like so many other “invasive” species, global transportation brought them to Iceland (or, cultists did it). North Carolina has plenty of these. So do most, if not all countries.

A growing number of new insect species are being observed in Iceland due to a warming climate and increased transportation, the institute said.

They do not magically appear because of a 1.7F increase in global temperatures since 1850. Let me know when they start reproducing in the wild.