Mosquito is “an any of a family Culicidae of dipteran flies with females that have a set of slender organs in the proboscis adapted to puncture the skin of animals and to suck their blood and that are in some cases vectors of serious diseases” (Merriam - Webster). There are more than 2500 species of mosquito in this world and each of the species carries a specific name based on their feature and to be able to distinguish one species from another, for example, Curex tursalis. Each species has their own unique environmental prerequisite for their live continuation. The mosquito feeding habit is also different when the female mosquito only bites man and animals for blood whereas male mosquito feed themselves only with a plant juice. The species also determined the flight habit of the mosquito. For example, the domestic species fly mostly in their point of origin, meanwhile, the migration species of mosquito, frequently fly far away from their breeding places. The flight range also different for male and female mosquito as female mosquito fly longer than male mosquito. The life cycle of the mosquito according to the American Mosquito Control Association (2014), consist of four processes, which are, laying eggs, emerge into larva, grow to be pupa, and become an adult mosquito. This process usually takes place in an early April (refer to Appendix 1).
The first life cycle of a mosquito is laying eggs. This task is done by the female mosquito. The female mosquito feed on man and animals because she needs to has a sufficient blood meal in order to lay eggs later. The eggs are laid one at a time and they float on the water. The water is an essential substance for mosquito to complete their life cycle. The water can vary from snow water u...
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...st stage mosquito lifecycle is adult. During this stage process, adult mosquito completed takes two or three days depend to the temperature (Clements, 2000). Adult mosquito starts float on the water surface and begin to swallow air when the adult is totally formed within the pupa cuticle (Clements, 2000). Adult mosquito has lengthened body and long wings and legs. It’s for the movement of solid bodies through air in stable form. The adult female and male mosquito use the sugar in plant juices as a source of energy. Adult female mosquito has a requirement for protein to develop a large total of eggs. For that purpose, adult female mosquito start engorges on human and animal blood. This adult mosquito has perforated the skin of animal and human with cavity and sucks a blood (Reece et al., 2011). Thereafter, the mosquito lifecycle will start again from the beginning.
The first of these is to anesthetize the entire culture and dispose of the adult generation in the fly morgue. The second is to transfer all adults to a new culture vial while recording the phenotypes and sex of the flies. These steps will be done in alternating weeks ending on week seven in which the final observation is recorded and the adult flies as well as culture vial is discarded. In between weeks the flies should be kept in a warmer with a temperature that ranges from 20℃ to 25℃ (University of South Florida, 2017, Biodiversity Lab Manual).
The Asian Tiger Mosquito commonly thrives in residential areas with shade and anything that can hold water. Cans, buckets, flower vases and other water holding containers (like tires), are suitable breeding sites for this invasive species. The male of this species feeds on nectar from plants, whereas the females feed and depend on blood to help them with the development of their eggs. Females may also feed on nectar also....
Mosquitoes have three purposes in the world. The first is to suck blood from multiple diseased animals and spread various infections to humans. The second is to bug, annoy, and make as many people mad as possible. The third is to reproduce and make as many babies as they can to carry on the family tradition. To make a parallel to this topic would like discussing telemarketers. Nearly every aspect of a mosquito has a direct connection to telemarketers such as their nearly countless numbers and their drive to topple the American will. Both of these entities still baffle scholars and researchers to how they happen to be so similar.
People do not need to worry about the male mosquitoes because they do not bite. The females are the biters. They need the protein in blood so their eggs will develop properly.
Fortunately, the assumptions made about maternal care in insects do not have to be accepted or rejected based only on faith or an educated guess; today it is possible for these predictions to be empirically tested so that the data may be recorded and analyzed. The following experiment is just one example of the various ways in which ideas regarding insects and maternal care may be effectively evaluated.
The adults overwinter in leaf litter and thatch until spring time when the temperature warm up. The adults become active seeking new areas to lay eggs and can be seen walking across pavement. The females lay white, kidney shaped eggs with in grass stems that are hollowed out. It takes about 7-14 days for the white larvae to hatch from the eggs and proceed to live and feed within the grass stem until its third-instar. During the second instars cycle, the larvae eat their way through the grass stem, breaking themselves out. The larvae go on to complete their third instar cycle in the thatch feeding roots and crowns. The larval stage takes about 5 to 8 weeks to complete before pupation occurs in the soil. The pupae are about 1 to 2 inches long and emerge as adults in about 7-10 days. They continue feeding on grass until they find their new overwintering site before temperatures begin to drop
In the article “When Mosquitoes Were Killers in America” by Lauren Tarshis, She makes the statement “Yet mosquitoes are far more than a nuisance.” What she means is that mosquitoes aren't a little bug that just sucks a little blood and can be annoying, but instead it uses all that and more. Mosquitoes have killed millions upon millions of people by spreading disease like malaria. An example of how she supports this claim is in the article, she says “ In this way, bite by itchy bite, 212 million people are infected with malaria every year” (Tarshis 13). And that is only a year with bug spray, shots, and all the other things that help stop mosquitoes. So when the U.S. government tried to save people from these murders little insects. So they
The female does most of the incubating of the eggs and caring for the babies. The male will catch the food and bring it to them. When the babies are older, the male and female will bring them food.
The seventh major case of Endangered Specie. Specific species of mosquito play host to one phase of various disease organisms they are the cause of major diseases that lead to human compilation. Most people don’t find it wrong to wipe the entire mosquito species in other to prevent human diseases such as sleeping sick, malaria, and human
There are nearly one million species of insects known. Insects are defined by having six legs and a body divided into three segments: head, thorax, and abdomen. Chitin is an organic material that makes up an insects exoskeleton. There are three life cycles of insects, ametabolous or incomplete and paurometabolous or gradual, and homotabolous or complete metamorphosis. These life cycles are important in the aging of insects for aiding in legal investigations, (Houck and Siegel. Entomology).
The last cycle is the urban cycle which is transmitted between human and mosquitoes, but mainly Aedes aegypti.
The average lifespan of a tsetse fly adult ranges from one to three months. The process of reproduction begins with the larva hatching from an egg within the female and the development of the young tsetse occurring within the uterus. The larva growth process usually take about nine days. While in the uterus, the larva get nutrients from fluid secreted from the female tsetse’s uterine wall. Proper nutrition is necessary because if under nourished the female fly will produce a small, underdeveloped and nonviable larva. On the other hand, adequate nutrition will ...
They are very popular because they have a relatively short life cycle, which lasts about 9 days. This makes it easy to observe multiple generations in a short period of time. The fly’s life cycle consists of egg, larvae, pupa, and adult stages. At each of these stages of development, Drosophila exhibits different phonotypical identities and mutations. The flies that were crossed contained a genetic mutation called apterous. Apterous can be observed by looking for flied that are missing wings. Flies with apterous will not have any wings. If this mutation is sex linked, it is expected that the male population will only be wingless in the F2 generation. If the mutational is autosomal, it is expected that the mutation to normal fly ratio is
The firefly is sometimes referred to as a “lightening bug.” There are about 2,000 firefly species; for the most part they live in warm but humid environments. Fireflies are neither flies nor bugs; they are actually part of the beetle family. Fireflies are from the Animalia kingdom, and are of the Lampyridae family. Fireflies hibernate over winter by burrowing underground, under water or settle under the bark of a tree some can live for several years by hibernating as larva during the winter.
The life cycle of a butterfly is perhaps one of the most beautiful and astounding processes in nature. The four stages a butterfly goes through to become the beautiful flying insects are just as interesting as the vibrant colors and patterns on the wings of the various species of butterflies. The four stages are as follows: the egg, the caterpillar, the pupa, and the emergence of the butterfly. Each stage is vital to the development of the adult butterfly. Perhaps the most interesting piece of the complicated puzzle that is the butterfly life cycle is the process of metamorphosis that happens in stage three. Similar to how a tadpole becomes a frog, a larva (caterpillar) morphs into a beautiful brilliantly colored butterfly.