Invasive plants may be boosting mosquito numbers in lower-income areas, showing how neighbourhood vegetation can quietly shape public-health risks

• Hand reaching into a mosquito enclosure.
• The study, co-authored by scientists at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies and led by Dr Sarah Rothman, a former postdoctoral researcher at the University of Maryland, shows that rotting leaves from invasive, nonnative plants commonly found in poorer