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With the heat of summer comes pool parties, beach days, backyard cookouts, and, of course, bloody mosquitoes.
But while insect bites always have an effect on how much time we spend outdoors, the organisms that bite are changing in colder climates like New England. As climate change makes these areas warmer and wetter, their lines are growing—and any diseases they carry with them.
In Connecticut, for example, a statewide mosquito control program has identified 54 species of mosquitoes, including mosquitoes like the Asian mosquito, that can transmit potentially deadly diseases including. dengue and Zika. The history of the mosquito region is hot and humid in the south, but it has been happening. moving north.
