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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Nematocera" (Non-Brachycera) » Mosquitoes and Midges (Culicomorpha) » Mosquitoes (Culicidae) » Culicini » Culex » White-dotted Mosquito (Culex restuans)
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May 27, 2007 - Mosquito Larvae and Pupa - Culex restuans
Copyright © 2007 Stephen Luk

May 27, 2007 - Mosquito Larvae and Pupa - Culex restuans
Richmond Hill, York Region, Ontario, Canada
May 27, 2007
Pupae and fourth-instar larvae (as well as some younger ones) collected from a pond-turned-mosquito breeding habitat. I think are at least two species in the image. That fact has at least been confirmed by a the emergences of many individuals of one species and at least one individual of another.
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Contributed by Stephen Luk on 31 May, 2007 - 10:25pm
Last updated 4 June, 2007 - 4:29pm

Moved
Moved from Mosquitoes.
… Omar Fahmy, 4 June, 2007 - 4:29pm login or register to post comments

tell me a little more about the habitat
what kind of water?
how man made do you mean?
how deep?
… Omar Fahmy, 2 June, 2007 - 2:04am login or register to post comments

 
It's a pretty small pond...
By my estimates, approximately five feet diameter and eight inches deep (refraction considered). It was clearly made to be a pond in a flowerbed stretching along the side of a building; a simple, round depression overlaid with a black tarp-like material. However, there are no ornamentation or filtration system, so the bottom is leaf litter and the water is stagnent. The water's color is a light yellowish-brown.
… Stephen Luk, 2 June, 2007 - 10:22am login or register to post comments

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