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Seasonality

for Yellow Fever Mosquito

The yellow fever mosquito holds a year-round presence in the tropics and pushes into more temperate regions during the warm summer months. Source: https://ask.ifas.ufl.edu/publication/IN792

Cold slows it sharply: in cool conditions larvae can linger for months, and the drought-hardy eggs wait out dry spells, hatching when warm standing water returns. Biting therefore climbs with summer rains and heat. Source: https://ask.ifas.ufl.edu/publication/IN792

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