Mosquitoes in winter air
Photo: Arne Ader
Translation: Liis
Wintering mosquitoes in Piusa cave.
Although most mosquitoes (suborder Nematocera) won’t be seen flying around in winter, with the warm weather now we can almost surely meet one or two of them slowly drifting in the air in some clearing at the edge of a forest. If one should land in your hair, or on your sleeve – there is no point in killing it, because, firstly, it isn’t the season for bloodsucking mosquitoes to suck blood and reproduce, and secondly, it is very probably a mosquito belonging to some wholly “innocent” species that hovers around and it wouldn’t suck blood in summer either. Now at last mosquitoes can be admired at leisure without worrying about bloodsucking.
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