Southern saltmarsh mosquito
The southern saltmarsh mosquito is a mosquito from southern Australia. It likes the coast, where the water in swamps is a little bit salty.
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Fun facts
Its babies grow up in swamps where the water is a little salty, but they can also live in fresh water.
It breeds all year round, but there are the most of them from late spring to early summer.
In 1998 it travelled to New Zealand by accident. People worked hard to get rid of it there, and by 2010 it was gone.
It is one of the main mosquitoes that spread Ross River virus along the coasts of southern Australia.
Most asked questions about Southern saltmarsh mosquito
?Where does the southern saltmarsh mosquito live?
In southern Australia and Tasmania, mostly near the coast where swamps are a little salty.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Aedes camptorhynchus
- Group
- Flies and mosquitoes
- Family
- Culicidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Diptera > Culicidae
- Lives on
- Australia and Oceania
Where the facts come from
- Aedes camptorhynchus (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Lek Khauv. CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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