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Culex Mosquito
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- With the change in season and rise in temperature, culex or common house mosquitoes have made reappearance across Delhi.
- Unlike Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, which spread dengue and chikungunya and breed in clean water, culex mosquitoes breed in unclean stagnant water.
- Culex mosquitoes are known as carriers or vectors of diseases such as Japanese encephalitis, West Nile Virus and Lymphatic filariasis.
- They bite by detecting body heat and carbon dioxide that humans exhale.
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