Blood-fed Ae aegypti mosquitoes (IMAGE)

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau

Blood-fed Ae aegypti mosquitoes

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The abdomen of adult Ae. aegypti mosquitoes swell as they extract a blood meal through a membrane-covered feeding device. Their weight can quadruple from the feast.

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Photo by Fred Zwicky

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