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Mosquito

Being the winter (dry) season in Zimbabwe when we went there on holiday, the insect population was much reduced, I was told. Fortunately that includes mosquitos and resulted in me sustaining only about 8 bites. Here's a mosquito showing off his formidable drilling gear. Why do they hold their back legs up in the air like that sometimes?

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Uploaded on July 3, 2007
Taken on June 12, 2007