Aedes aegypti, Culicidae
Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
Nikon D5100, 105 mm f/2.8
February 26, 2019
This photo is from a shoot earlier in this year that was a basis for Dan Peach‘s Aedes vegans April Fool’s hoax. Aedes (and most blood feeding mosquitoes) do seek out a variety of plant sugars (see Peach & Gries, 2019) but a purely vegetarian Aedes is comically unlikely.
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