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De Havilland Mosquito B.35 TA634 at the de Havilland Aircraft Museum September 1984.
Photo by John W. Read.
I think this kind of mosquito is not dangerous to man.
Today's Bible Verse:
Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord.. . .Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her.
EPHESIANS 5:2,. 25
Arachnocampa luminosa These worms aren’t actually a worm; they are actually the larvae of fungus gnats. This is an insect that looks similar to mosquitos, as when they reach maturity, they become flies.
The glowworms found in New Zealand are carnivorous fungus gnats, meaning that their diet consists of insects smaller than them, such as moths, midges, and flies. Carnivorous glow worms catch their prey by hanging silk threads vertically which are covered in a sticky mucus that entraps the insect.
There are over 3,500 species of mosquitoes worldwide, with only 180 in North America. One is the Toxorhynchites rutilus septentrionalis, also known as the elephant mosquito, is one of the largest species of mosquitoes. Their wingspan is half an inch with legs that can overlap a U.S. quarter. Their feeding behaviors make them strikingly different from a typical mosquito. Both adult males and females are strictly nectar-feeding and so they do not have a role in the transmission of pathogens to animals as in other mosquitoes. Instead, their larvae are predacious and could potentially help curb the spread of common diseases via vector mosquitoes. Scientists near Houston, Texas are raising these mosquito assassins as a tactic against the common disease-spreading mosquitoes.
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The Mosquito is my favourite airplane. I was lucky to see it while it was getting its spring maintenance.
At the end of the day, especially at the end of a week, lots of people like to stop at their local watering hole for a drink. This is the one in my neighborhood. In the 36 years I've lived here it's changed owners twice, but they've always kept the name the same. I suspect it's because nobody wants to replace the large neon sign on the front of the building!
For the All New Scavenger Hunt #1 - At the end of the day.
As you know, I am always wandering around my neighbour's garden taking photos of his beautiful flowers. The last couple of times I have been there (even in the middle of the day), I have come back home covered in mosquito bites. This is probably one of the culprits that attacked me LOL. These are SOOC only resized in photoshop.
#110 on Explore on 24th March, 2009.
Summer time brings mosquitos: food for hungry plants... :D
Have a great weekend
Fine delle zanzare
L'estate porta le zanzare.. che possano finire divorate da queste piante speciali... :D
Buon weekend!
Brutality against mosquitoes in Cochin.
Special correspondent
Cochin was earlier known as Queen of the Arabian Sea when humans were under control of the city. Recently with the help of a special agency called GCDA who specializes in cultivating, training and building intelligent living spaces for mosquitos the city was successfully handed over to mosquitoes. Even today the corporation, GCDA, health department, tourism department, IT department etc try to attract humans both desi, NRI, NRK, foreigners etc by various means. Recently the IT department played major role by attracting well fed, educated engineers with extra large bellies from various parts of the country and they are mostly allotted in certain areas like kakkanad where mosquitoes from other areas given access restricted by weekly passes. Government is planning other special areas like smart city to increase the comfort levels of mosquitoes.
Tourism department organizes special programs in association with GCDA and Cochin corporation to attract foreign crowd. This ensures that mosquitoes are fed with blood belonging to various human races.
In addition to the existing canals and marsh lands GCDA and corporation is working on elaborate plans to create poth holes across the roads which will enable more mosquitoes to breed every year.
But the recent times the human population in Cochin has become increasingly intolerant towards our fellow mosquitoes. They accuse mosquitoes of causing discomfort and itching after they are provided with meals. Innocent mosquito population in Cochin are also accused of causing minor problems like death, long term illness like ChickenKuniya, dengi etc. They comfortably ignore the fact that ChikenKuniya is caused by over consumption of Chicken and minor problems like death are caused by natural spiritual causes which completely non-related to mosquitoes and their diet habits.
The government also noticed that humans are killing mosquitoes using brutal methods like electrified bats, certain poisonous liquids etc. Al-Out is believed to provide the Cochin population with liquids with extra MMR. Other outfits like Gud-NeT also believed to operate distribution chains in the Cochin area. Its a irony that the same humans were protesting against killings of couple of hundreds of humans or economic down turn.
A little known outfit believed to be operating out of country with a 'wall' is illegaly distributing deadly equipments resembling to tennis rackets. These weapons are charged from 230V A/C power consuming electric power and then used to kill mosquitoes.
This correspondent witnessed certain inhabitants of the city killing innocent mosquitoes with these deadly weapons. The poor mosquitoes are first lured close humans and then they are struck with electrified bats causing to blast into tiny pieces.
One inhabitant who calls himself "Intruder" said that more than killing the mosquitoes he enjoy the sound of them exploding !! He claims those deaths give him peace of mind.
This correspondent who had successfully reported the attack in Mumbai and increased the rating of TV channels never had such difficulty in reporting and selling the killing in Mumbai. But this is far too cruel than anything I have ever seen. The following photos and dead mosquitoes will give you a clear picture of brutality done against mosquitoes in Cochin. This high time for us to reach out and save the life innocent mosquitoes in this city.
I have provided AB+ type meal to few mosquitoes while making this report. Now this is your turn to act against this vandalism.
123 exposures, wemacro 20um, olympus 10x UmPlanFI, Raynox dcr 250 tubelens, Nikon d810, Nikon r1c1 flash kit, iso 64 1/50, zerene Stacker, photoshop.
I was sitting at the lake "Noor" nearby my home town of Eckernförde during sunset after a hot and sunny summer day. I discovered a big swarm of mosquitos flying above the surface of the lake and captured the patterns produced by them through the back light.
76 exposures, wemacro 10um, Raynox 150 tubelens, Olympus 10x UMPlanFI, Nikon d7200, Nikon r1c1 flashkit, zerene stacker, photoshop
Here's my contribution to the Battle Bugs theme at this year's Brickcon. A steampunk mosquito flame-thrower. I really, really hate mosquitoes, so this was kind of interesting to build. Facing my fears I guess. Now I should go build a huge fly swatter.
The actual Mosquito falls sets about 100 yards upstream of this false falls... but they were pretty cool nevertheless. Cause waterfalls... Also, the waterfall was nice, but THAT TREE and THAT MOSSY GROWTH. Booya!
Not everything is as bad as it may seem.
Toxorhynchites. My favourite mosquito of all. These are beneficial mosquitoes and are just lovely things to have around.
I’m still trying to get a decent shot, but they are very ‘skittish’ animals. They do not bite, and their larvae are predators of other mosquito larvae, so they are there to do you a favour. That long proboscis is to get into flowers. They are quite common if you have lots of bromeliads. Very beautiful little things.
The Mosquito Range in central Colorado is still showing some snow as we move into late June. The snow fence in the foreground got a good workout this past winter and spring, but the landscape has finally transformed from white to green.
Mosquito (from the Portuguese meaning "small fly") is a common flying insect in the family Culicidae that is found around the world. There are about 3,500 species of mosquitoes. They have a pair of scaled wings, a pair of halteres, a slender body, and six long legs. The females of most mosquito species suck blood (hematophagy) from other animals, which has made them the deadliest disease vector known, killing millions of people over thousands of years and continuing to kill millions per year by the spread of infectious diseases.
- Noel M. Young
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