Image de Aedes aegypti (Linnaeus 1762)

Description :

This 2006 photograph depicted a female Aedes aegypti mosquito as she was in the process of flying away from her host's skin surface, after having had obtained her fill of blood. Normally, blood is obtained from an unsuspecting host, but in this case, the CDC's biomedical photographer, James Gathany, had volunteered his own hand in order to entice the insect to alight, and feed. Note that the sharply pointed orange-colored "fascicle", was once again ensheathed within the insect's proboscis by the outer soft labium. Its blood meal can be seen inside its distended abdomen, evidenced by the red coloration visible through the stretched, transparent exoskeletal abdominal exterior. See PHIL # #8924, for this mosquito's appearance before the ingestion of its blood meal.
Created: 2006