By analyzing temperature and humidity trends from a station at Atlantic City International Airport, science and news group Climate Central found the mosquito season here is 23 days longer on average than it was in 1979. In addition to that, they are very annoying.īecause of the heat-trapping effects of fossil fuel emissions, they are also here longer. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention calls the mosquito the world’s deadliest animal because the diseases they spread kill hundreds of thousands worldwide every year. The target: Tiny insects that can weigh as much as 2½ grains of table salt. Michael “Gus” Gustray, an Atlantic County biologist, watched as helicopter blades picked up speed, blowing back the dry grass before the chopper lifted off on a search-and-destroy mission, banking over a line of trees and heading toward the wide expanse of salt marsh. This is the first story in a two-part collaboration between Press of Atlantic City and Climate Central examining connections between climate change and mosquito hazards
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