Why do you have so many mosquito bites on your ankles? Here are 4,000 words in the Abu Dhabi Review to explain that it's your own fault, because you are a human being.
The old distinction between mosquito territory and human territory - and the idea that the one can be reclaimed from the other - has collapsed. Now humans come first and mosquitos follow. "The albopictus are colonising human-made habitats," Strickman said. The Asian tiger mosquitoes breed in artificial containers, shelter and feed in domestic shrubbery. Given a choice of animals, they will take their blood meals from humans."Albopictus here," Strickman said, "is acting like a domesticated mosquito."
(Note: the editors for the Abu Dhabi paper translated the piece from American to British English. It seems "skip," for instance, is the British word for "dumpster." Who knew?)
