File:Aedes aegypti CDC9176.tif

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Aedes aegypti (Linnaeus, 1762)

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James Gathany
Description
This 2006 image depicted a female Aedes aegypti as she was about to fly off of a host’s skin surface after having obtained her blood-meal. In this case, what would normally be an unsuspecting host was actually the CDC’s biomedical photographer’s own hand, which he’d offered to the hungry mosquito so that she’d alight, and be photographed while feeding. 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 fascicle is visible as a yellow tube, which is about to become concealed inside the labium of her proboscis.
Content Providers(s): CDC/ Prof. Frank Hadley Collins, Dir., Cntr. for Global Health and Infectious Diseases, Univ. of Notre Dame
Gender
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Female
Date 2006
Source https://phil.cdc.gov/phil/details.asp?pid=9176
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This image is a work of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, part of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, taken or made as part of an employee's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain.

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This file, which was originally posted to https://phil.cdc.gov/phil/details.asp?pid=9176, was reviewed on 25 December 2016 by reviewer 1989, who confirmed that it was available there under the stated license on that date.

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