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January 26, 2010

Image Challenge - 20: Identify the insect vector


Identify the arthropod?
Scientific name?
Breeding site?
Periodicity?
Name the diseases that it can be a vector?

2 comments:

  1. I guess it's an Aedes aegypti female, the mosquito-vector of Dengue disease - breeding human blood.
    (sorry my poor English!)

    ;-)

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  2. Its Aedes albopictus. Transmits dengue, chinkungunya etc.

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