Pests may emerge earlier in Canada: experts [Video]

Canadians don’t usually worry about mosquitoes, ticks or other insects in early March. Yet the abnormally mild winter in the country could see some pests bug people earlier than usual in Canada, some entomologists say.

“With a warming climate, the survival over winter can improve for a number of different species, although the relationship is uncertain and a subject of much research by many,” James Tansey, provincial entomologist with the Saskatchewan Ministry of Agriculture in Regina, said in a video interview with CTVNews.ca.

Alice Sinia, entomologist with pest control company Orkin Canada in Mississauga, Ont., says she expects certain pests to show up earlier than normal and even appear in larger numbers during the spring and summer.

“When the winter is very mild, large pest populations will survive,” Sinia said in a video interview with CTVNews.ca.

Sinia calls winter “Mother Nature’s natural pest control.”

“So when the winters are very cold – lots of snow – it tends …