tiger mosquitoes by: krishna and bhavisha name of species scientific name- aedes albopictus common...

Tiger MosquitoesBy: Krishna and Bhavisha

Name of species

• Scientific name- Aedes Albopictus• Common name- Tiger mosquitoes• Kingdom- Anamalia• Phylum- Arthropod• Class - Insecta

Distribution

• From Asia• Came to USA in 1985 in Texas• Came by tires imported here by Japan• Can be found anywhere in North America and

asia

Effects on people

• Can cause LaCrosse encephalitis, a virus which humans het through an infected mosquito bite

• Now people come out of the woods early because mosquitoes some out at night

Effects on ecosystem

• Tiger mosquitoes ( female) get blood from other animals

• They don’t effect the ecosystem that much

Food web

• In the food web below the rat is getting energy by eating a mosquito ( insect)

Reasons for success

• They have plenty of food• Enough area to navigate places

Issues for the future

• People say that there is no way to control this but investigators are planning a trap to capture them

• Trade offs are that they might be able to trap the mosquitoes but they might get infected with a bite.