It’s summer, and here at Mosquito Squad of the Triad we are constantly asked if mosquitoes are worse than recent memory? And that they may be. Enter the Asian Tiger (Aedes albopictus). 
This new menace is alive, well and living in North Carolina. Believed to have arrived in Houston around 1985 via a shipment of tire castings from Japan, have been found in NC beginning in the late 1980′s.
The Asian Tiger, named for it’s stripes, poses a potential human health threat: encephalitis, Dengue fever and yellow fever. It also can transmit heart-worms to dogs. It will breed in anything body of water from bottle caps to ponds. It bites more often than standard-issue mosquitoes do. It has nothing against sunshine–so look out on the tennis court or in your garden. And to make matters worse, the Asian Tiger is taking over the native mosquitoes, which are less aggressive.
The United States Department of Agriculture of has more information on this and all species of mosquitoes.
