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De Havilland Mosquito T.3 RR299/G-ASKH at the British Aerospace Hatfield open day in September 1981.
The mosquito is a common flying insect that is found around the world. There are about 2,700 species of mosquitoes. Mosquitoes can fly about 1 to 1.5 miles per hour (1.6-2.4 kph).
Mosquito Bites: Females drink blood and the nectar of plants; the males only sip plant nectar. When a female bites, she also injects an anticoagulant (anti-clotting chemical) into the prey to keep the victim's blood flowing. She finds her victims by sight and smell, and also by detecting their warmth. Not all mosquito species bite humans.
Disease Carrier: The mosquito is often a carrier of diseases, such as malaria, encephalitis, yellow fever, dengue fever, dog heartworm, West Nile virus, and many others. The females, who drink blood, can carry disease from one animal to another as they feed.
Anatomy: Like all insects, the mosquito has a body divided into three parts (head, thorax, and abdomen), a hard exoskeleton, and six long, jointed legs. Mosquitoes also have a pair of veined wings. They have a straw-like proboscis and can only eat liquids.
Life Cycle: The complete life-cycle of a mosquito takes about a month. After drinking blood, adult females lay a raft of 40 to 400 tiny white eggs in standing water or very slow-moving water. Within a week, the eggs hatch into larvae (sometimes called wrigglers) that breathe air through tubes which they poke above the surface of the water. Larvae eat bits of floating organic matter and each other. Larvae molt four times as they grow; after the fourth molt, they are called pupae (also called tumblers). Pupae also live near the surface of the water, breathing through two horn-like tubes (called siphons) on their back. Pupae do not eat. An adult emerges from a pupa when the skin splits after a few days. The adult lives for only a few weeks.
Classification: Kingdom Animalia; Phylum Arthropoda; Class Insecta; Order Diptera ("two wings"); Family Culicidae.
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Emory and I purchased pullover "bug shirts" www.outdoorshack.com/bugshirts/ to keep from being eaten alive by mosquitoes. They're really bad at the refuge this month. We went this morning. The pull-overs worked well except the mosquitoes bit our exposed hands. It was not very pleasant so we didn't stay long. This is a sampling of our pics....all were taken quickly so not the best.
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A carrier of many diseases, such as Malaria, West Nile, and Yellow Fever, mosquitoes are more deadly than one can truly think.
My entry to the 2019 Bio-Cup preliminaries. The theme was "Scary Monsters" so I decided to go for something I've wanted to build for a long time... a mosquito. Best of luck in the contest everybody!
Windows glass of the rural log cabin.
Captured by Canon SX50 HS in the village of Kuskovo near Tomsk, Western Siberia, Russia. Sep 2015
Unknown male mosquito with fluffy antennae and mouthparts on goldenrod by the pond. Home, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. 7 August 2022
According to inaturalist, this is an Inland Floodwater Mosquito (Aedes vexans).
Identification
Larvae:
- Antennae are shorter than head
- Short siphon with a tuft half as long as the diameter of the base, between pecten teeth
- Saddle on anal segment incomplete
Adult Female:
- Unbanded proboscis
- Scutum with short brown scales and no obvious pattern
- Most easily recognized by the sideways 'B' shaped markings on each abdominal tergite.
Range
common in southern Canada and throughout most of the US, but is less abundant in the extreme south / Nearly cosmopolitan (3)
Habitat
This is a floodwater mosquito, meaning that the eggs are laid offshore and when a heavy rain comes the water rises, floods the eggs and the egg hatches. Eggs are mainly found in freshwater pools and depressions.
Virtually any transient water can support Ae. vexans larvae, but rainpools in unshaded areas produce the largest broods. The species is most common in grassy pools that border wooded areas but specimens can be encountered in partially shaded woodland pools, roadside ditches, and vernal pools in open fields. - Wayne J. Crans, Rutgers University
Season
Larvae: April-September
Adults: May-October
Food
Mammalophilic - females prefer only the blood of mammals for protein meals.
Like all mosquitoes, they will also take sugary liquids like nectar, honeydew and sap.
Life Cycle
- Overwinters as an egg
- Multivoltine
Remarks
These mosquitos bite mammals and are known to travel distances from their breeding sites unlike other mosquitos. They are good vectors of EEE and the Cache Valley fever virus has been isolated from them
Aedes vexans is recognized as New Jersey’s most serious pest mosquito due to its abundance, widespread distribution and breeding potential in floodwater habitats. The mosquito probably does not reach the nuisance levels of Aedes sollicitans in coastal areas but causes annoyance over a much broader range of the state. The mosquito has not definitely been documented as a vector of disease but has been implicated as a secondary vector of eastern equine encephalitis and dog heartworm. - Wayne J. Crans, Rutgers University bugguide.net/node/view/57572
Medical importance
A. vexans is a known vector of Dirofilaria immitis (dog heartworm), myxomatosis (a deadly rabbit viral disease), and Tahyna virus, a seldom-diagnosed Bunyaviridae virus, which affects humans in Europe, causing a fever which disappears after 2 days, but afterward can cause encephalitis or meningitis. A. vexans is the most common mosquito in Europe, often comprising more than 80% the European mosquito community. Its abundance depends upon availability of floodwater pools. In summer, up to 8,000 mosquitoes can be collected per trap per night.[5] A. vexans exhibited significantly higher transmission rates of Zika virus than A. aegypti, and its wide geographic distribution, periodic extreme abundance, and aggressive human biting behavior increase its potential to serve as a Zika virus vector in northern latitudes outside the range of the primary vectors A. aegypti and A. albopictus.[6] In addition to several medically important viruses Aedes vexans mosquitoes have also been shown to harbour the insect-specific flavivirus Chaoyang virus[7] and insect-specific Aedes vexans Iflavirus.[8] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aedes_vexans
Mosquito Valley is in Armstrong Township, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania. Most of the valley is forest and is owned by the Williamsport Municipal Water Authority. The eastern end of the valley has some farms and family housing.
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ON July 7 2010 the mosquitos were in full force at Norden , CA. Enduring the mosquitos made this scene quite a challenge.
Photographed with a Leitz SM Microscope using a 3.5X Objective and a 10X Periplan eyepiece for a total magnification of 35X. The camera was a Zenza Bronica ETRSi that takes 6X4.5 format on 120 film. The film is Fujifilm Acros 100 developed in Beerenol (Rainier Beer). The exposure was 60 seconds.
A closer look of the mosquito. If you view this large or original you can see the detail in the compound eyes.
Explore July 16, 2008 #108
This is a 1 second exposure of mosquitoes near a flood light. The light was so strong that they seemed to be flying and light painting the blue sky.
By transmitting diseases, mosquitoes cause the deaths of more people than any other animal taxon: over 700,000 each year.[5][6]
5^ "Mosquitoes of Michigan -Their Biology and Control". Michigan Mosquito Control Organization. 2013. Archived from the original on 2013-03-30.
6^ Bates C (2016-01-28). "Would it be wrong to eradicate mosquitoes? – BBC News". Retrieved 2016-02-01.