Details - Public Health Image Library(PHIL)

ID#:

9176

Caption:

This 2006 image depicted a left lateral view of a female, Aedes aegypti mosquito, as she was about to fly off of a host’s skin surface after having obtained her blood meal (PHIL 9175). As it filled with blood, the abdomen became distended, stretching the exterior exoskeletal surface, thereby, causing it to become transparent, allowing the collecting blood to become visible as an enlarging intra-abdominal red mass. The tip of the sharply pointed stylet, through which she was able to suck up the host’s blood, was still visible as a yellow tube that was about to become concealed inside the labium of her proboscis.

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Content Provider(s):

CDC/ Prof. Frank Hadley Collins, Dir., Cntr. for Global Health and Infectious Diseases, Univ. of Notre Dame

Creation Date:

2006

Photo Credit:

James Gathany

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Categories:

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