Yellow Fever Mosquito, Aedes Aegypti #1
by Meckes/ottawa
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Yellow Fever Mosquito, Aedes Aegypti #1
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Meckes/ottawa
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Photograph - Photograph
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Color-enhanced SEM of the yellow fever mosquito (Aedes aegypti). This species belongs to the blood sucking group, and as its name indicates, it is a vector for the transmission of several tropical fevers. The specimen in the photograph appears harmless, lacking any threatening proboscis. The explanation is simple the mosquito in the image is a male, which is not able to bite. With his soft proboscis, he merely drinks nectars. The females feed on human blood and thereby transmit yellow fever and dengue-fever. With the advance of global warming, tropical medical researchers fear that this species could also migrate further north. Magnification 851 at an image size of 15x15 cm.
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May 19th, 2021
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