#culicidae — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #culicidae, aggregated by home.social.
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Patiently waiting for blood sucking mosquito species to become endangered species.
#mosquitoes #culicidae #insects #malaria #dengue #yellowfever #zika #chikungunya #aedes #aedesaegypti #aedesalbopictus #endangeredspecies #parasites #parasiticspecies #populationcontrol #pests #pestcontrol #pestextermination #mosquitotraps -
An Elephant Mosquito (genus Toxorhynchites) spotted at Windsor Nature Park, Singapore on 8 Feb 2025. These large forest mosquitoes are not blood-suckers. And their larvae feed on other mosquito larvae (like those of Aedes aegypti), so they are considered a beneficial species.
On iNaturalist [ https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/260984657 ].
#iNaturalist #Nature #Photography #Singapore #Insects #Mosquitoes #Culicidae
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CW: Mosquito macro
Its Friday! Here's one of my local dengue vectors. If you know the genus or species, please tell me.
#FlyDay #Diptera #SriLanka #Insects #Arthropods #Culicinae #Culicidae #Mosquito
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A mosquito, gathering a blood meal from a knuckle of the hand that wasn't holding the camera. I admire her white tufts and bristly antennae.
#fly #flies #mosquitos #culicidae #diptera #insects #arthropods #photography
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I like all flies, but some are less favorite than others. Here's a perfectly adequate treehole mosquito on my hand.
#fly #flies #FlyFriday #culicidae #diptera #insects #arthropods #nature #photography #macrophotography