2023-07-03 17:14:35
A swarm of insects has been hitting New York for the past few days. After an episode of smoke linked to the fires affecting Canada, the inhabitants of the Big Apple have been facing, since Wednesday, a sky populated by unusual insects in the region, reports ABC7. New Yorkers have taken to social networks by storm to express their astonishment at the invasion of the sky by these little-known insects.
“Can someone explain to me what’s going on in New York right now with these mosquitoes/gnats?” “The glasses, the clothes, the beard, the cap… The entire body of a cyclist was covered with gnats.
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No link with the smoke episode
According to the academic Corrie Moreau, professor of entomology, questioned by the New York Times, these insects would be simple aphids, harmless to humans. This “unusual” phenomenon would not, however, be linked to the episode of smoke that affected the city a little earlier in June.
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It would be more linked to the “mild winter” experienced by the city this year. The plants eaten by these insects would have proliferated more, allowing the aphids to reproduce in greater quantity and earlier. Another entomologist, Kim Adams, of the public University of New York, estimated that the presence of strong winds would also have contributed to the phenomenon.
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“Not a threat to public health”
For its part, the New York City health department was reassuring. In a press release, he assured that, if these aphids could be “annoying”, they did not represent “a threat to public health”. Entomologist Jody Gangloff-Kaufmann was reassuring to the Guardian, believing that the swarms would stop “as quickly” as they had arrived.
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