{"id":666681,"date":"2026-06-30T20:27:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T20:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/666681\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T20:27:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T20:27:11","slug":"herm-visitors-advised-to-take-precautions-against-mosquitos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/666681\/","title":{"rendered":"Herm visitors advised to take precautions against mosquitos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said: &#8220;Their metabolism has increased as it&#8217;s got warmer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;So generation times are sped up &#8211; and so it&#8217;s quite likely that mosquitos that people&#8230;more associate with late summer, they&#8217;ve managed to feed up as larvae quicker than normal because the temperature has been higher.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added that calm weather created the perfect way for them to find their victims.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They first of all look for dark silhouettes&#8230; the next thing they hone in for is the carbon dioxide that you breathe out, and to a certain extent the certain volatile chemicals that you give off from your skin,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;In very still weather, effectively they can smell their way straight to you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jones advised the main two defences against bites were using a chemical repellent, and creating a physical barrier, such as closing windows or using a mosquito net over your camp bed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He said: &#8220;Their metabolism has increased as it&#8217;s got warmer. &#8220;So generation times are sped up &#8211; and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":666682,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[59,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-666681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-gb","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=666681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/666682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}