2023-09-24 04:00:00
It is not trivial. Much less than its cousin, the common Culex pipiens. The tiger mosquito, real name Aedes albopictus, now poses a global problem, like global warming. “It is one of the ten most invasive species in the world, introduced on all continents, except Antarctica” explains Guillaume Minard.
Introduced is the right term. From the end of the seventies, humans brought it across the borders of South-East Asia and off we went! Alone, this featherweight of five millimeters flies a little less than a kilometer, specifies the microbiologist.
Microbiologist, Guillaume Minard is a lecturer at Claude-Bernard Lyon1 University.
He works in the microbial ecology laboratory (CNRS, INRAE, Vet Agro, Université Claude…
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