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Chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · 3 days ago

There are now mosquitoes in Iceland

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There are now mosquitoes in Iceland

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Chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · 3 days ago

https://icelandmonitor.mbl.is/news/news/2025/10/20/mosquitoes_found_in_iceland/

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Lyudmila [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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Culiseta

From culex, the Latin for “gnat”

Annulata

meaning “ringed”

Sorry to disappoint, I just love taxonomy.
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  Annulata and anus are cognates through that root.
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  Sorry to disappoint, I just love taxonomy.
  
  It’s cool. Thanks for the correction.

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