LAIST.COM - Good news for mosquito haters across Southern California: It's still too early in the year for most mosquito species to thrive, despite all the recent record-setting rain that the pesky insects thrive on.
However, UC Riverside biologist Anandasankar Ray said he couldn't rule out the possibility that some mosquitoes will use the wet weather to breed — especially since there's been anecdotal evidence in recent years of invasive mosquito species being active in the winter, including the Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus that have moved into the area.
"I myself in Riverside am finding once in a while I have seen the stray adult Aedes mosquitoes even now [in the winter]," Ray said. "So there is something going on where they're adapting to colder climates."