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Mosquito - Ochlerotatus fitchii - female
Copyright © 2007 Stephen Luk

Mosquito - Ochlerotatus fitchii - Female
Guelph, Wellington, Ontario, Canada
May 21, 2007
I'm going to be living off-campus for the next school year, so some friends and I leased a house. I moved in today, and found the backyard to be an unmowed lawn teeming with mosquitos. Most were males (not surprising, I guess), but the females didn't seem to be interested in biting me. Reminds me of Ochlerotatus ... perhaps a canad*ensis?
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Contributed by Stephen Luk on 21 May, 2007 - 4:59pm
Last updated 22 May, 2007 - 6:25pm

Moved
Moved from Mosquitoes.
… Omar Fahmy, 22 May, 2007 - 6:25pm login or register to post comments

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I am having some difficulty with this one as it seems to be going out past couplet 19....This is when you have to start looking at claw curvature and such. I would ask Omar, and I will put it to some of my labmates.
It is not Oc. canadensis though, as that one would have both apical and basal pale bands on the hind tarsomeres.
… Sean McCann, 22 May, 2007 - 12:59pm login or register to post comments

 
I would
put this in fitchii
… Omar Fahmy, 22 May, 2007 - 6:23pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks guys
These mosquitos are swarming the lawn ... I'm glad we can put a name to them.
By the way, are mosquitos attracted to lights? I thought biting flies tend to avoid light sources at night (which is contrary to popular opinion), but these ones really swarm!
… Stephen Luk, 22 May, 2007 - 11:13pm login or register to post comments

 
No,
the light attracts them. For example when we use our traps there is a light and CO2 that attracts the mosquitoes. Goes all the way back to when Sir Patrick Mason (late 1800s) used his Chinese servant, Hin Loo, as a human guinea pig to try and determine how filarial worms were spread. Sir Manson put a little light on top of the room to attract mosquitoes to bite Hin Loo while he was asleep
… Omar Fahmy, 23 May, 2007 - 9:00pm login or register to post comments

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