tiger mosquito
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[edit]Noun
[edit]tiger mosquito (plural tiger mosquitos or tiger mosquitoes)
- Any mosquito of the species Aedes albopictus (especially) or Aedes polynesiensis.
- 2023 September 1, “‘A first in Paris’: city fumigates for tiger mosquitoes as tropical pests spread, bringing disease”, in The Guardian[1], sourced from Agence France-Presse, →ISSN:
- Health authorities in Paris have fumigated areas of the French capital for the first time to kill disease-carrying tiger mosquitoes whose rapid advance through northern Europe is thought to have been accelerated by climate change.
Hyponyms
[edit]- (mosquito): Asian tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus), Polynesian tiger mosquito (Aedes polynesiensis)
Translations
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References
[edit]tiger mosquito on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Aedes on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Aedes on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons