Iceland just found its first wild mosquitoes. Is climate change to blame?

On 16 October, a man in western Iceland spotted a ‘strange fly’ at dusk. He called in the experts, who confirmed they were the first wild mosquitoes ever discovered in Iceland, and there were three of them. Until this autumn, Iceland was one of just two mosquito-free zones on Earth, along with Antarctica. Experts are wary of linking the rogue bugs directly to climate change, but their discovery comes in the wake of a spring of record-breaking heat in the Arctic nation.