April 2023: Mosquitoes hatch – danger from West Nile fever
They cause itchy wheals on the skin and many people find them annoying: In Germany, the larvae are currently hatching again from the mosquito eggs. “We have good starting conditions,” said Doreen Werner from the Leibniz Center for Agricultural Landscape Research (Zalf) in Müncheberg. The insects like it moist and warm, the biologist explained. How quickly they develop now depends on the weather in spring.
