CULEX MOSQUITOES

About:

• Warmer temperatures are the main reason for the appearance of these mosquitoes.
  
  
• Their presence is especially felt more in areas around floodplains in East and South Delhi as it is an ideal condition of breeding.
  
  
• Culex mosquitoes are known carriers of Japanese encephalitis, a potentially life-threatening but rare viral disease that causes “acute inflammation” of the brain. They breed in dirty, stagnant water.
  
  
• They can fly up to a distance of 1-1.5 km.
  
  
• Unlike Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, which spread dengue and chikungunya and breed in clean water, culex mosquitoes breed in unclean stagnant water.