It is not one species but a complex of several almost identical species that can be told apart only genetically and that differ greatly in their ability to transmit malaria.
From African Malaria Mosquito
Its preference for biting at night and indoors is what makes insecticide-treated bed nets so effective, the single measure that has prevented most malaria deaths over the past two decades.
From African Malaria Mosquito
It is the subject of the first gene drive trials, a technique that seeks to spread through the population a gene that makes it sterile or unable to transmit the parasite.
From African Malaria Mosquito
It breeds in any container of standing water and can carry dengue, Zika and chikungunya.
From Tiger Mosquito
It is one of the hundred most damaging invasive species in the world and the most widespread invasive mosquito in Europe. It reached the continent in 1979, in Albania, probably in cargo from China.
From Tiger Mosquito
It travels in the global trade in used tyres and lucky bamboo, because its eggs withstand drying out.
From Tiger Mosquito
It is one of the main vectors of West Nile virus.
From Northern House Mosquito
Its eggs are grouped into small boat-shaped rafts that float on the water.
From Northern House Mosquito

Ecosystems