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A mosquito biting me.
Unfortunately I was unable to hold the camera steady with one hand while being bitten in the other.
Taken with Tamron 90mm at Lundevik, Mandal
Today I went for a walk throughout what used to be this deserted farm to take pictures in the old buildings. I've taken so many pictures there while I was in high school, and I guess I was thinking of those memories. Unfortunately when I got there I found all the buildings were knocked down to nothing and also I was eaten alive by the not so friendly mosquitoes. I've never had so many bites at once before. Here, you can see about a quarter of my bites on my forehead and elbows.
When you walk among the trees. Listening to the leaves. The further I go the less I know. The less I know. - Queens of the Stone Age
Mosquito Pass, CO. This is a personal favorite of mine, it was such an awesome day. I took this on our way back down the pass. The sun was starting to set and we were hiking around exploring the abandoned mill here.
Mosquito Repellent with DEET! Deep Woods Off! Pics by Mike Mozart of TheToyChannel and JeepersMedia on YouTube.
Mosquito I. "Merlin" XX--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
Off! Mosquito and Tick Repellent with DEET! Deep Woods Off! 5/2014 Pics by Mike Mozart of TheToyChannel and JeepersMedia on YouTube.
I have to say the mosquitos are far fewer than I expected. Frances has been bitten a few times but I don't think I have at all.
Pizzataxi's Mosquito. Bacon, shrimp, onion and bell pepper. Oh and garlic. A lot of garlic :)
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Dave Rawlings' De Havilland Mosquito from Parkzone. 20.5" wingspan. Counter-rotating props. 2.6oz. total weight.
Mosquito River - emptying into Lake Superior - feels rather like poring water out of a bottle into the lake :-)
hehe...Parece o mosquito da dengue, mas não sei é não... E esse é o meu dedo... Até onde lembro, ele não picou não...
Finally getting better pics bit by bit but these are notoriously difficult to get photographs of.
Bit of a story behind this mosquito. I saw it in smccann's photostream a while back and nearly traveled to French Guiana, just for this guy. A better photo can be seen in his stream here: www.flickr.com/photos/deadmike/4525866850/. I was photographing some ants when I saw this guy flying around my head, well, this was the first time I'd ever seen this guy and I was so excited. I left my arms ready to be bitten. Well, go figure that the DEET only stops the mosquitos I want biting me! After trying unfruitfully to catch it I finally went back to camp. The next day I looked around but didn't see a single one of these mosquitoes, so I went back to the same spot, high up in the canopy and there it was, a single one, probably the same! I didn't wear DEET this time, but still the bloody thing wouldn't land! I waited until I couldn't stand the other mosquitos anymore! The next day I decided that I would counter the irony of DEET keeping away the mosquitos I want biting me by bringing my mosquito net to catch this mosquito. So I found the one mosquito circling me. Then I hurled my mosquito net at it, like a fisherman and finally caught it! Believe it or not, even when I put my hand in the net, it still refused to bite me! So, I transferred it into a small bag and refrigerated it to slow it down enough to photograph. Out of 100's of photos I couldn't get a single one I was happy with! Then when I tried to show the guide the mosquito since I had played it up so much, I showed him an empty bag. He looked at it confusedly. I looked at it."I could have sworn there was a mosquito in there..."- just as I hear a buzz by my left ear and he looks around also having heard the buzz. By this time of course it is nighttime. So I wait out on a couch as a vigil to catch this mosquito. Only I fall asleep after waiting for several hours. I wake up and what should I find but several bites, one of which I'm sure belonged to that damnable mosquito!
Rik-rjlittlefield over at photomacrography.net found an article describing the role of the paddles on the legs of Sabethine mosquitos here: www.springerlink.com/content/p2434240mg774r21/. It basically states that they are used in courtship behaviour, amongst the only courtship displays observed in mosquitos. "A male approaches a female suspended from a horizontal stick, suspends himself in front of her as he grasps her folded wings, and proceeds with a series of discrete stereotyped behaviors that involve proboscis vibration and movement of iridescent blue paddles on his midlegs."
De Havilland Mosquito FB.6 TA122 at the de Havilland Aircraft Museum, London Colney, Hertfordshire, on 12th July 2022.