The effects of microclimatic winter conditions in urban areas on the risk of establishment for Aedes albopictus.

ABSTRACT: The tiger mosquito, Aedes albopictus, has adjusted well to urban environments by adopting artificial water containers as oviposition sites. Its spread in temperate regions is favoured by the deposition of cold-tolerant diapausing eggs that survive winter temperatures to a certain degree. The probability of establishment in new geographical areas is estimated using predictive models usually based on meteorological data measured at coarse resolution. Here, we investigated if we could obtain more precise and realistic risk scenarios for the spread of Ae. albopictus when considering the winter microclimatic conditions of catch basins, one of the major sites of oviposition and egg overwintering in temperate urban areas. We monitored winter microclimatic conditions of catch basins in four Swiss

SUBMITTER: Ravasi D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9509395 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature