What is Iceland's secret of mosquitoes? Although mosquitoes exist in almost every region of the world, both cold and warm, northern Iceland is devoid of mosquitoes, although it has a cold weather similar to other neighboring countries such as Norway, Denmark and Scotland.
Although interpretations differ, natural scientists have speculated that the nature of water and chemical soil in the country is what prevents mosquitoes from growing
In addition, mosquitoes need shallow pools to give warmth to their eggs to hatch, but Icelandic nature is devoid of these suitable ponds. The melting speed of the lakes' ice makes it much faster than the mosquito eggs need to get warm and hatch, making it impossible to hatch mosquito eggs if any.
The interesting thing is that you can only find one mosquito in Iceland kept inside a glass jar in the Icelandic Natural History Museum. The mosquito was found hiding in an airplane in the 1980s and remained as a witness to the life of an extinct insect from Iceland!
But some scientists predict Iceland will not remain mosquito-free for long. With the warming of the planet and its transformation into a warm planet, the country is expected to fall out of the list of mosquito-free countries, in addition to Iceland, New Caledonia, French Polynesia and Seychelles.
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