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Mosquito - Aedes japonicus - female
Copyright © 2006 Stephen Luk

Mosquito - Aedes japonicus - Female
Guelph, Wellington, Ontario, Canada
September 8, 2006
... and a close-up of another photo to show the abdominal banding.
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Contributed by Stephen Luk on 8 September, 2006 - 11:27pm
Last updated 9 September, 2006 - 6:32am

Thanks,
Omar and Sean for the ID.
… Stephen Luk, 9 September, 2006 - 7:53pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Frass.
… Omar Fahmy, 9 September, 2006 - 6:32am login or register to post comments

pretty sure
what you got there is an Ochlerotatus japonicus. I did not know they go that far up north though.


did it kinf look like her?
… Omar Fahmy, 8 September, 2006 - 11:53pm login or register to post comments

 
...
March 2006 JME:
Volume 43, Issue 2 (March 2006)
Journal of Medical Entomology

Article: pp. 138–142 | Abstract | PDF (200K)
Establishment of Ochlerotatus japonicus (Diptera: Culicidae) in Ontario, Canada

Aynsley Thielman, Fiona F. Hunter

Brock University, Department of Biological Sciences, St. Catharines, Ontario, L2S 3A1, Canada
… Sean McCann, 9 September, 2006 - 5:26am login or register to post comments

 
aaiiiigghtt
it si final then
… Omar Fahmy, 9 September, 2006 - 6:32am login or register to post comments

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