ba8b0dc4dda2c2a28a058615b92757f9

Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain/
Rating3
VettedTrusted
Description
This female Anopheles freeborni is taking a blood meal from a human host by pumping the ingested blood through her labrum, which is visible here as a thin red, needle-like structure between the mosquito’s head and the host’s skin.
Created: 2004
Original URLhttp://phil.cdc.gov/PHIL_Images/20050125/bca4ecfee1f24b7e975ef929e8bef032/6764_lores.jpg
photographerJames Gathany
providerPublic Health Image Library
Scratchpads developed and conceived by (alphabetical): Ed Baker, Katherine Bouton Alice Heaton Dimitris Koureas, Laurence Livermore, Dave Roberts, Simon Rycroft, Ben Scott, Vince Smith