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On 16 October, a man in western Iceland spotted a ‘strange fly’ at dusk. He called in the experts, who confirmed they were the first wild mosquitoes ever discovered in Iceland, and there were three of them.
Until this autumn, #Iceland was one of just two mosquito-free zones on Earth, along with Antarctica). Experts are wary of linking the rogue bugs directly to climate change, but their discovery comes in the wake of a spring of record-breaking heat in the Arctic nation.
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