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Mosquito Scotland Project
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#UKRI Project 'Assessing the risk of mosquito vector-borne diseases in Scotland & their response to environmental change'
https://mosquito-scotland.com
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Moving into Oct with temperatures & daylight hours falling in Scotland, the "peak" mosquito activity season is passing. However, some species like Culex pipiens can still be found 'overwintering'; like this one our team found on #Arran yesterday. Let us know if you see any
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Close up picture of a plastic tube with a single Culex pipiens mosquito caught inside it. It has a brownish body, six legs, and a long needle-like proboscis on its head
October 8, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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Yesterday we said goodbye to Saad Naqvi - our fantastic summer intern who joined us from the The University of Texas at Dallas. Great to have you on the team this summer, thanks for all your hard work in the field and lab to help us understandthe ecology of potential mosquitos in Scotland.
Four people standing in front of the main entrance of the Graham Kerr Zoology builidng at the University of Glasgow, all members of the Mosquito Scotland Project team. Left to right - Meshach Lee, Heather Ferguson, Saad Naqvi and Georgia Kirby
August 13, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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The #mosquito season is truly underway in these celtic lands. We're seeing an uptick in Scotland, and #Mosquito Northern Ireland friends Ryan Carmichael & @rosscuthbert.bsky.social got these in a trap in #Armagh today.

You can report mosquito sightings in Scotland -
www.mosquito-scotland.com
June 26, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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Fantastic weather in Belfast this week as Dr Georgia Kirby from #MosquitoScotland visits our collaborator and #QueensUniversityBelfast PhD student Ryan Carmichael to kick off collaboration on mosquitoes.

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Photo of shallow river/marsh (a few meters across) surround by tall grass (knee height), with taller trees on the horizon. In front right, you can see Queens University Belfast PhD student Ryan Carmichael (side profie, from waist up) and University of Glasgow Researcher Dr Georgia Kirby (back) looking at the water to check for larvae. Both are dressed for field work; Ryan is holding a notebook and has a backpack. There is a blue sky with light cloud, weather is very sunny.
May 16, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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Good morning little guys! A good haul of mosquito larvae found in an urban area of Glasgow this morning. With the warm weather, larvae are developing fast and will transform into adults in a few more days. Let us know if you see any where you are in Scotland
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May 16, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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Good morning mosquito-scotlanders!
Exciting news as first Culex mosquito egg raft of the yr found in Glasgow- no fooling!
This along with ⬆️ of citizen science reports confirms mosquito season in Scotland is kicking off. If you live in Scotland, keep an eye out & report
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Picture of a Culex mosquito egg raft, found in an aquatic habitat in Glasgow. The egg raft is a black, tear-shaped mass, with slightly jagged edges (the 'jags' are individual eggs, with @50-150 together in one mass). Photo is taken against a white background.
April 1, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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Our brilliant MRes student @kierankillen4.bsky.social found the "Statistical accounts of Scotland 1791-1846" online. You can search 'ague' to find accounts of how #malaria affected Scottish communities in 1700s- 1800s, including this from Abernyte, Perth in 1791
stataccscot.ed.ac.uk/static/stata...
The picture shows the text of page 140 from the ‘Statistical Accounts of Scotland 1791-1845, which gives a description of experiences of ‘Ague’ – a commonly reported febrile disease that is generally thought to have been caused by Plasmodium vivax malaria – as reported for the parish of Abernyte, County of Perth, in 1793 (Vol IX). The text is in an older style of English from the 1700s, and I couldn’t clearly discern some of the letters. I’ve transcribed the text based on what I think the letters are. The sentence at the top of the page is a continuation from the page before (so starts mid sentence), the text reads “country was less healthy than the low wet land of the Carfe. The reverse is now undoubtedly the fact here, for some years past in the Ipsing, a rush fever has visited the low ground on each fide of the hills, viz. The Carfe and Strathmore, and carried off numbers; very few, however, of the inhabitants of this parish were infected, and none died. Of epidemic diseases, it may be remarked, that agues, which some years ago appeared in great numbers, both in high and low grounds, have now entirely vanished. This has been attributed to the draining of wetlands, and more nourishing diet of the people I have been allured, than 30 years ago, if a farmer in the spring wanted 4 of his cottagers for any piece of work, he generally ordered 6, knowing the probability that some of them, before the work could be finished, would be rendered unfit for labour, by an attach of the ague. Rheumatisms, called emphatically the pains, prevail in this district, as in most places of Scotland. The most general disease, however, in this district and particular in this parish, is scrofula; not a family of most of the indigenous inhabitants of the lower is free from it. Some labourers int his parish are at present deprived by it of the power of earning their subsistence. This evil seems rather to be on the increase, from the (unreadable) of the people themselves, and the in…
February 9, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Last #mosquito report of 2024 was late Dec, first of 2025 was last night. This beautiful Culiseta annulata from a house in Glasgow- one of our team members!

If anyone else sees them in Scotland - report
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Pictures a close up of a dark mosquito sitting on a white stucco wall. It has it's six legs splayed out, and a needle like proboscis sticking out from it's head - this structure used for blood feeding - meaning the mosquito is a female (only females blood feed. Wings are folded on over it's body . They are grey with stipling. The species is Culiseta annulata - the common house mosquito. This species is native to the UK.
January 18, 2025 at 10:18 PM