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Aedes aegypti not only carries and transmits diseases like Zika, chikungunya, dengue, and yellow fever, but it’s also incredibly invasive, spreading out of Africa and around the world in the last couple of centuries — thanks in part to its reproductive cycle.
Only the female mosquito feeds on blood, which is needed for egg production. Roughly three days after feeding, the mosquito lays her eggs in several locations over multiple days. A single female can lay around 100 eggs per blood feed and can produce up to five batches in her one to two-week lifetime.
Aedes aegypti eggs can stay dormant for over six months and hatch when submerged in water. This trait and the fact that a female can produce up to 500 eggs in her lifetime have created a mosquito that is highly able to spread and expand quickly, rapidly creating new areas of disease risk and transmission.
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