eileen
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| Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2006 11:59 am Post subject: Tigers coming to Britain!! |
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The Asian Tiger mosquito has been spreading rapidly across Europe & the USA over the last couple of years & leading entomologists are predicting it's arrival on these shores very soon. There was one reported in Milton Keynes last year, fortunately the person who found it kept the specimen for identification & it turned out to be only a dragonfly!?!
I've attached a link to an American site with some good pictures for ID, if you do find something you think is a Tiger please pop it in a pot and send it either to Insect Survey at Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Herts. Or to the National History Museum.
Do keep an eye out, especially when you are on the south or east coasts as you may be the person who first reports the Tiger's arrival in the UK. 
http://www.fcps.edu/StratfordLandingES/Ecology/mpages/asian_tiger_mosquito.htm
I'll definitely be hoping to spot one of these but not getting too close to it - have you seen the size of the thing!!!! 
If anyone else finds one be sure to take somes pics and post them in the forum here before you send it to Insect Survey or NHM!!!!! 
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