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FIGURE 1 - Unidentified sp. - Laguna Blanca, Departamento San Pedro (John T. Smit January 2011 http://science.naturalis.nl/smitj).
FIGURE 2 - Unidentified sp. - Laguna Blanca, Departamento San Pedro (John T. Smit January 2011 http://science.naturalis.nl/smitj).
FIGURE 3 - Unidentified sp. - Laguna Blanca, Departamento San Pedro (John T. Smit January 2011 http://science.naturalis.nl/smitj).
CULICIDAE - MOSQUITOES
Perhaps the most infamous of all Dipteran orders, the 3500 or so species of mosquitoes get a bad rap for their biting females and reputation for spreading disease. Adult of both sexes feed on nectar or plant juices, the biting female´s blood meal is required only for the production of eggs, their saliva being laced with an effective anticoagulant. Its not just your imagination, mosquitoes do indeed prefer some people over others, with proportions of carbon dioxide, ocetonol and other compounds in your body odour deciding how attractive you are. The egg, larvae and pupal stages of the life cycle are all aquatic.
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