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The mosquitofish ( Gambusia affinis ), also named the mosquito fish, western mosquitofish, western gambusia, or live-bearing tooth carp, is a fish in the Poeciliidae family. It is from the southern and midwestern United States and east coast of Mexico. [2] [3] Human beings brought it to many other places, for example Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and ...
Number built. 7,781 [3] The de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito is a British twin-engined, multirole combat aircraft, introduced during the Second World War. Unusual in that its airframe was constructed mostly of wood, it was nicknamed the "Wooden Wonder", [4] or "Mossie". [5] Lord Beaverbrook, Minister of Aircraft Production, nicknamed it "Freeman's ...
Mosquito coil. A mosquito coil is a mosquito-repelling incense, usually made into a spiral, and typically made using dried paste of pyrethrum powder. The coil is usually held at the center of the spiral, suspending it in the air, or wedged by two pieces of fireproof netting to allow continuous smoldering. Burning usually begins at the outer end ...
The genus was first identified in 1924 by Marshall Hertig and Simeon Burt Wolbach in the common house mosquito. They described it as "a somewhat pleomorphic, rodlike, Gram-negative, intracellular organism [that] apparently infects only the ovaries and testes ". [6] Hertig formally described the species in 1936, and proposed both the generic and ...
Sabethes or Canopy Mosquito are primarily an arboreal genus, breeding in plant cavities. [1] The type species is Sabethes locuples, first described by Jean-Baptiste Robineau-Desvoidy in 1827. [2] They are generally conspicuously ornamented with shining metallic scales.
Ovitraps are also used to monitor the yellow fever mosquito Aedes aegypti. Bacillus thuringiensis serotype israelensis ( Bti) is a group of bacteria used as biological control agents for larvae stages of certain dipterans. Bti produces toxins which are effective in killing various species of mosquitoes, fungus gnats, and blackflies, while ...
See text. Toxorhynchites, also called elephant mosquito or mosquito eater, is a genus of diurnal and often relatively colorful mosquitoes, found worldwide between about 35° north and 35° south. Most species occur in forests. It includes the largest known species of mosquito, at up to 18 mm (0.71 in) in length and 24 mm (0.94 in) in wingspan. [1]
