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Invasive mosquitoes’ distribution has increased in recent decades throughout Europe. In 2014 Aedes albopictus was identified for the first time in the Basque Country (northern Spain) and in 2020 Aedes japonicus was detected in the three Basque provinces. This study aimed to evaluate the association ...

Extreme climatic events, environmental degradation, unplanned urbanization and socio-economic inequalities exacerbate the risk of infectious disease emergence, spread and transmission. Mosquito-borne diseases, such as dengue and malaria, are highly sensitive to climate variability and climate change...

The World Health Organization will launch a Global Arbovirus Initiative soon. This Initiative focuses on Aedes-borne arboviral diseases and aims to strengthen the coordination, communication, capacity-building, and preparedness/response necessary to mitigate the growing risk of epidemics due to arbo...

Aedes fluviatilis is an anthropophilic mosquito abundantly found in urban environments, however, its biology, epidemiological role and genetic characteristics are poorly known. Urbanization processes that resulted in environmental modifications together with climate change benefit certain anthropoph...

The construction of a hydroelectric power station on Zeya River near the town of Zeya (Amur Region, Russian Far East) in the early 1970s spurred the development of a new urban settlement in the town for construction workers. Natural conditions of this area supported the persistence of populations of...

The occurrence of mosquitoes in Prague sub urban forests, gardens, parks, recreation areas, golf courses etc. was compared between flood and non-flood years. The monitoring was based on mosquito larvae collection and mosquito female catch by CO2 traps. No massive larval populations of the anthropoph...

Urban centres amplify both abiotic and biotic parameters favouring pest life history. In absence of natural enemies in urban areas, these parameters often are directly proportional to growth and population of these pests. Under the influence of climate change and global warming, these centres will a...

Breeding sites of Culex pipiens molestus, an autogenous and anthropophilic bioform of Culex pipiens, were frequently detected in flooded basements of buildings in Prague in the second half of the last century. The breeding sites gradually disappeared owing to improved maintenance of buildings after ...

Brazil occupies nearly half of South America and is the fifth largest country in the world by geographical area. Brazil’s biodiversity reserves are the greatest in the world and urban pest diversity is not any different. It is estimated that 85 percent of the inhabitants in the country live in urban...

The growing urbanization process lead some organisms to rapidly set in the urban environment. These species, called synanthropic, can act as mechanical or biological vectors of microorganisms, and their occurrence represents a serious health risk. In Brazil, ants and cockroaches are the organisms mo...

Both wasps and bees are essential components for the diversity of tropical terrestrial systems. These insects, however, show an intense urbanization behavior, building their nests in the eaves of houses, wells, rooftops and other sites. Thus, the number of accidents caused by these insects has incre...

Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel Abstract The development of any urban area has been followed by dramatic changes in floral and faunal biodiversity, which also touches upon vectors of human and animal diseases, and provides strong impacts on wildlife-p...

The processes of urbanization is accompanied by attraction to settlements, the synanthropization, of many systematic groups of animals including arthropods. Synanthropization of some vectors of diseases agents, means augmentation of their contacts to people and increase of epidemiological danger. Th...

As a result of the rapid rate of urbanization in Botswana, street food vending has become very popular as it supports a large number of the population with affordable, nutritious foods. There has been an associated increase in the number of cockroaches around vending sites in the streets. Cockroache...

By the year 2025 about 61% of the world’s population will be living in urban areas, especially in developing countries. The urban population will double from 2.4 billion in 1995 to 5 billion in 2025. The world’s urban population is growing 2.5 times faster than the rural population. The impact on he...

This review concerns aspects of climatic and microclimatic effects on biology and pest status of synanthropic pest species. The number of medical and synanthropic pest species in an area parallels overall species richness and the pest faunas of tropics and subtropics are more abundant than the fauna...

Spatial scale, from global and regional, through landscape down to habitat and microhabitat is a critical concept for both understanding pest- and threatened-insect biology. At the finer scale, there are some distinct influences and impacts on insect populations, some of these (e.g. open water butts...

Modem society has moved from an agricultural base to one that is urbanized. A majority of the world's population, in both developed and developing countries, lives in towns, cities, or large metropolitan areas. Urbanization can often lead to conditions of overcrowding, substandard or inadequate hous...