In the mosquito too, there are unfortunately summer visitors

Scientists call them “summer visitors”. They are animals capable of living in slow motion during a hot and dry season before waking up when favorable environmental conditions return. A hot version of hibernation in a way. In Mali, where malaria is endemic, researchers have just confirmed in Nature Ecology & Evolution thatAnopheles coluzziione of the vectors of this disease, can aestivate for months, before resuming its culpable activity.