Published: October 5th, 2023,
Last updated: May 28th, 2025
Commotion was high in the summer of 2022 – a population of Asian tiger mosquitoes was discovered in a community garden in Berlin, which were already found the year before. The Senate administration reported evidence of successful overwintering and that a permanent colonization was to be feared. This makes Berlin the northernmost German region where the species has so far been officially detected.