Mosquitoes discovered in Iceland for the first time (cnn.com)

Having been seeing unseasonal ones in London too as of late

Getting more in the middle of winter in NSW Australia too

Never understood how mosquitos could survive the sub-zero temperatures of an Alaskan winter for example.

What's the average life span of mosquitoes? Assuming the climate in Iceland has become warm enough for them to survive there, how did they get there in the first place? Is the atmosphere just full of insect eggs?

Dup: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45675851 (56 comments)

I'm surprised that happened this year, with all those ships and travel. Mosquitos couldn't grasp hiding on cargo ships until now?

Likely human introduction. Far from being an isolated case: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-64446-3

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Finally, Iceland can feel our pain....

I am surprised that I should be surprised. Aren't mosquitoes a well known nuisance in Greenland, which despite the name is colder than Iceland? I would have expected that mosquitos in Iceland were also entirely normal. TIL.

Mosquitoes, Snakes & Jellyfish. Everyone else is welcome to live long & prosper but those 3 we should just remove from our planet...

“Who cares if the world gets 2° warmer?”

Mosquitoes. Mosquitoes care.

Kill them while you still can. The mosquitos in the Midwest are so ferocious their swarms can kidnap small children.

So in case of Iceland, can we call it Global Warming again? I miss that term.

Has the future arrived, bit it’s not equally distributed?

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I never imagined that they could survive in Alaska. From the show Life below zero... take a look at these.....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXq92PItsA0

Iceland doesn't have "extreme cold". It does go below freezing in the winter, though, and it's relatively isolated.

Calgary has a few weeks of -30C every winter, and we are not short on mosquitoes.

I hate mosquitoes with a passion. Might be the only species that I would want eradicated from Earth.

From my experience (based in Turkey), mosquitoes seem to be getting more and more resilient. They have become an annoyance even in autumn, and I recall catching one last winter. A few decades ago, they used to only appear in late spring and summer. Anyone have a similar experience elsewhere?

Ireland is still pretty much free of mosquitoes. I think it is the wind and exposure that keeps them out

Yes Iceland has no mosquitoes(or perhaps I should say had) but...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMgIVx2kUH4

People hear "Iceland has no mosquitoes" and think that means "Iceland has no biting flys", spoiler, they do.

Since Iceland is so isolated, it may be a good place to see if a gene drive can actually eradicate.