Artificial lights across Africa may alter the biting behaviours of mosquitoes: ‘Artificial light is doing things to the environment that we don’t even think about’
are disrupted. Insects are affected as well, as carriers of disease; this means that light may be changing human disease risk.has found that mosquito species are influenced by light in different ways. The malaria-spreading Anopheles mosquito bites in the night-time, so light at the correct spectrum could keep them at bay from the household until occupants are safely installed under their mosquito nets to sleep.
“By combining this lab data with field data on how light is being used in rural areas, we will model and map how artificial light alters disease prevalence,” he says. Although light influences human physiology and the environment, there isn’t much work being done to deepen the understanding of its effects, particularly in Africa.
Research into artificial light at night has received significant attention in some sectors, such as medicine, but less so in others, like the environmental field.
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