A small mosquito is currently making life difficult for residents and tourists in the Italian village of Orbetello: the insect appears in masses in the community in Tuscany – this also makes the spiders “abnormal”. Citizens even called for the emergency situation.
The Lagune city on a headland in Tuscany is otherwise the goal for relaxing excursions – but due to an invasion of mosquito mosquitoes, relaxation in the resort aan Zee is currently excluded. “We are locked up at home like in the time of Covid,” complained those who were affected. Because of the plague you can’t open the windows and don’t even go for a walk. ‘Our children [ ] Breathe air full mosquitoes, ‘the bad location is explained in a petition on Change.org.
The sugar mosquito comes into its own on white vehicles, as the following article shows:
The petition, which demands the exclamation of the emergency situation because of the mosquito pest, has now found 18,000 supporters. The initiators make one Ineffective management of the lagoon responsible for the invasion of insects. “Due to false and failed decisions, people have caused this natural disaster,” they are convinced.
By mosquitoes “abnormally large spiders”
But not only the insects are a problem – because the rich feed offer also means “abnormally large spiders”. “We call on that the emergency situation will be proclaimed and the region and all participating institutional authorities (including the Ministry of Environment) are taking urgent measures to immediately put an end to the mosquito plague in the Orbetello lagoon,” says the petition.
The phenomenon is by no means new: there was already a similar invasion in 2022. Because the water in the lagoon was enriched with too many nutrients, fish and amphibians would die, who normally eat the insect larvae and keep their population in chess. Although the mosquito mosquitoes do not stab and do not pose a danger for people, they can cause allergic reactions such as conjunctivitis and asthma.
On Thursday, the community announced that 300,000 euros would be made to put an end to the mosquito pest.
Source: Krone
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