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found a forgotten tub of water wriggling with mosquito larva - fascinating, but definitely unwanted as i get big welts when bitten. i'll only go so far to attract dragonflies!
This Mosquito belongs to Kermit Weeks. It is currently on display at the EAA Museum in Oshkosh Wisconsin. This plane also appeared in the movie “633 Squadron”. (Airventure 1990)
Mosquito Wreck Just After Coming To Rest (December 16,1946)---Perman Collection Image--Please tag these photos so information can be recorded.---Note: This material may be protected by Copyright Law (Title 17 U.S.C.)--Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum
Who knew mozzies had hairy bodies? This one landed in my empty porridge bowl this morning and started eating the milky oat dregs. Apparently they need sugars, normally obtained from nectar, for energy as well as the protein from blood. I didn't expect it to hang around while I got my camera organised but it did and these are the best two shots.
Heavy rain at the moment after storms all night so no birds around today.
The Mosquito River is a short stream that rises someplace 7 miles behind me and makes a pretty quick run here, where it meets Lake Superior. I think this little bend just upstream from the mouth is one of the prettier creek scenes I've come across. I've posted pictures from this spot a couple of times. (Time 1, Time 2)
HFDF! This pretty mosquito was seen taking nectar and then basking on a cool day in Durham, North Carolina (USA). An expert on BugGuide identified it as:
Elephant Mosquito - Toxorhynchites rutilus (female)
Also posted at:
bugguide.net/node/view/1897004
Note characteristic curved beak! This species, even the female, does not take blood, only plant juices. The larvae also prey on other mosquito larvae.
Yes, that's what this Tomahawk Railway engineer was practicing on his way over the Lake Mohawkskin Bridge (Wisconsin River) at Tomahawk, WI
We had a garden wildlife pond constructed in May this year. We've stocked it with plants and have been waiting to see what wildlife was attracted. The first "new life" we observed was mosquito larvae. It did occur to me that without fish or other predatory pond-life present, there wouldn't be anything to control them. It looks like I needn't have worried.
In the last week or so, adult mosquitoes have been emerging. I've also witnesses little clusters (of what I assumed were mating mosquitoes) spinning about of the pond surface. A couple of days ago, just out of interest, I took a photograph of this. I was quite surprised. Not a mating pair, but what looks like a mosquito being predated by a fly (possibly an Empid fly). Reading up about this, it would appear that Empid flies are one of the major predators of newly-emerged or emerging mosquito adults. Isn't that interesting!
de Havilland DH98 Mosquito prototype W4050 (E0234) preserved at the de Havilland Aircraft Museum, London Colney and close to Hatfield where it's first flight took place on 25th November 1940.
One of the most versatile aircraft of WWII, the mosquito was originally conceived as an unarmed fast bomber, but was also adapted to roles including tactical bomber, high-altitude night bomber, pathfinder, day or night fighter, fighter-bomber, intruder, maritime strike aircraft, and fast photo-reconnaissance aircraft.
This aircraft is particularly unique as it’s rare for an original prototype of a WWII era combat aircraft to survive to this day.
You know you are a photo junkie when, stung by a mosquito, your instinct is to photograph it, not squish it.
Now if only the stupid insect had gone after my left hand instead of my right, I'd have been able to take a better picture. Maybe some other time.
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This is by far my most circulated photo. It's all over the web, usually as an illustration to articles about mosquito-related issues. I think that's pretty neat, and most of them give proper credit, but a lot of them don't.
So here's a reminder: You can post this photo just about anywhere, provided you don't make a profit from it, and my name goes next to the photo. Ideally, have the picture be a link back to this page. You may crop the image to make it better fit your page. You may not add a watermark. You may not pretend it is your intellectual property, because it's mine. It's that simple.
Thousands of mosquitoes in the stretch of road between Volgograd and Astrakhan, along the Volga river Russia.
Doorway to a NIAID lab that conducts research on mosquitoes, insect vectors, and vector-borne infectious diseases. Credit: NIAID
The sad remains of a crashed de Havilland Mosquito aircraft can be seen on Easter Balloch Hill near Glen Esk in Scotland.
An unarmed 'civilianised' Mosquito registered to BOAC as G-AGGF, was tasked with flying to neutral Sweden on a wartime 'fast freight service' mission. The aircraft did not make it as far as Sweden and it crashed on high ground and in bad weather whilst attempting to return to RAF Leuchars in Fife (which was actually some forty miles to the south).
Captain Louis Alfred Wilkins, piloting the operation, and his radio officer Flight Sergeant Harold Beaumont, took off from Leuchars on the 17th of August, 1943.
Possibly due to some kind of instrument failure, the aircraft set off on a wrong bearing about 18 degrees to starboard of the intended course. About forty minutes after take-off, Wilkins communicated that they were returning to base but no reason for this has been recorded.
The crew made several requests to Air Traffic Control for steers and fixes and the same 18 degree error seemed to occur on subsequent course corrections. When controllers eventually realised that the Mosquito was travelling towards high ground, an instruction was sent to gain altitude. Sadly, no more was heard from the aircraft.
A gamekeeper discovered the wreckage above Glen Lee on the 8th of September. The aircraft, with wheels down, had hit the slopes of Easter Balloch Hill at 2500 feet a little way north of the summit, and so became BOAC's first Mosquito loss. Tragically, both crew members lost their lives in the accident.
Hundreds of fragments of metal, glass, cabling etc, remain at the site and some larger metal pieces such as undercarriage struts are still there. Wind and weather have moved some pieces of wreckage far downhill but most are still contained at the impact site.
The fuselage and wings of the de Havilland Mosquito were famously made largely of wood. (It became known as 'The Wooden Wonder.') This meant that furniture manufacturing and piano building firms were able to construct these parts to partially relieve the heavily overburdened conventional aircraft industry.
Some small wooden pieces remain at the site.
The crash site (Grid Reference NO 348805) is sometimes described as being on Drumhilt, which is a subsidiary top of Easter Balloch Hill.
This Mosquito was an FB Mark VI and would have been painted in a camouflage scheme but with prominent civilian BOAC markings on the upper wing surfaces.
Here is a photograph showing Captain Wilkins after a successful Swedish mission.
www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205210869
Captain Wilkins' pipe was found at the crash site some years ago. It was retrieved and presented to Captain Wilkins' son.
The famous de Havilland Mosquito - a fast bomber made out of plywood! The de Havilland company figured out that by using the talents of the British furniture-building industry and stripping the airframe of defensive armaments they could build a bomber that could simply out-run most trouble. Mosquitos made many daring daylight raids into Nazi territory and frustrated the Luftwaffe badly. Another rare restored plane, due to the nature of the wooden construction.
A picture of a mosquito while is was buzzing around trying to get a "meal".
It isn't in perfect focus because it was in flight when I took this photograph although it looks like it's landed.
We took a moment to examine this mosquito taking a break from tormenting people.
Photo by Courtney Celley/USFWS.
In this image: Anopheles coluzzii mosquito with transgenic fungus (green) emerging from its body after death
Almost everywhere humans live on this planet, mosquitoes carry microbes that cause potentially deadly diseases, from West Nile virus to malaria. While chemical insecticides offer a line of defense, mosquito populations often grow resistant to them. So, it’s intriguing to learn that we may now have another ally in this important fight: a genetically engineered fungus.
Reporting in the journal Science, an international research team supported by NIH describes how this new approach might be used to combat malaria. A fungus called Metarhizium pingshaense is a natural enemy of the mosquito, but, by itself, it kills mosquitoes too slowly to control transmission of malaria. To make this fungus an even more efficient mosquito killer, researchers engineered it to carry a gene encoding a toxin, derived from a spider, that is deadly to insects.
Read more: directorsblog.nih.gov/2019/06/11/combating-mosquitoes-wit...
Credit: Brian Lovett, University of Maryland, College Park
NIH support from: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases