For decades, Culex pipiens f. molestus was called the “London Underground Mosquito”. Most people, including scientists, ...

A large international team of researchers has discovered that the mosquitoes that live in London's underground subway evolved ...

Genetic analysis suggests a form of mosquito found in urban subway systems evolved in the Middle East thousands of years ago ...

Once thought to have evolved inside the Tube network, a tunnel-dwelling mosquito might actually have emerged thousands of ...

Culex molestus, the London Underground mosquito ... a new “human niche” that could have been “too arid” for C pipiens. Their irrigation systems may have offered breeding sites for the ...

Culex pipiens f. molestus is found in cities all over the world, but it became widely known as the London Underground mosquito after the second world war, when it was the scourge of Londoners ...

Compared to the similar C pipiens, which lives and breeds above ground, C molestus has adapted to live in artificial underground environments, developing the ability to mate and breed in confined ...

Compared to the similar C pipiens, which lives and breeds above ground, C molestus has adapted to live in artificial underground environments, developing the ability to mate and breed in confined ...