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 ...

Mosquito blood meals reveal history of human infections In the 1990s, scientists suggested that molestus could have ... extracted DNA from 357 C. pipiens mosquitoes of both forms collected from ...

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 ...

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 ...