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License | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain/ |
Rating | 2.66667 |
Vetted | Trusted |
Description | This 2006 image depicted a female Aedes aegypti mosquito as she was obtaining a blood-meal from a human host through her fascicle, which being transparent, reflected the bloods red color. In this case, what would normally be an unsuspecting host was actually the CDCs biomedical photographers own hand, which hed offered to the hungry mosquito so that shed alight, and be photographed while feeding. As it filled with blood, the abdomen became distended, thereby, stretching the exterior exoskeletal surface, causing it to become transparent, and allowing the collecting blood to become visible as an enlarging intra-abdominal red mass, as is the case in PHIL# 9175, and 9176. Created: 2006 |
Original URL | http://phil.cdc.gov/PHIL_Images/9181/9181_lores.jpg |
photographer | James Gathany |
provider | Public Health Image Library |