Often, a summer threshold to us in the dwelling is flying out huge mosquitoes (by ignorance, the people call them malarious), who are moving around the apartment and frighten the households with their size and acute peak at the end of the abdomen. The first thing I want to do, seeing the uninvited guest - to send it with a rag or newspaper. Do not rush to parse insect, it is completely harmorated to humans.
What is the name of a big mosquito with long legs?
Large mosquitoes or sheloning, on the scientific name - caramas, not poisonous, do not bite, do not drink blood and are not carriers dangerous for people of infectious diseases. We will analyze what this dock looks like from a group of long insects:
- A giant individual with large narrow wings (on the front pair - along the spot. The torso of a light brown or brown, elongated, silhouette resembling a cigar, reaches some individuals up to 7 cm.
- The distinguishing feature of the smallers - long legs, which she explodes when he saves from predators.
- There is a short stupid trot, which is not capable of piercing the skin of an animal or man. Eyes at mosquito facet, motionless, black shade.
- The end of the abdomen is sharp, like a peak - it is eggland.
Where is a big mosquito with long legs?
Imago (adult individuals) love dampness, so you can meet insect in Ylannik, wetlands, a shady city park, in a country greenhouse or a greenhouse. Learn more about life activity.
- Carable appears in the spring, and a little later, at the beginning of summer, they begin to mate and put the eggs into wet moss, ground, drunk stumps, to the surface of the reservoir.
- Activity manifests itself closer in the late afternoon, insects are sediments.
- The period from pounding to the release of a young ballerina (another nickname mosquito) takes about two weeks. For the female season, under the most favorable conditions, only one offspring displays.
- The giants of nectar feed, fruit juice, dew, and their insatiable larvae - algae, rotting plants, roots of juicy plants.
How not to confuse a big mosquito with malarious?
As you understand, the smallery does not spread with malaria, unlike the anofeles, that is, the malarious mosquito. Let us try to find out what is one of the most dangerous insects in the world.
- Anofeles is much less smalleling, but a little more than ordinary mosquitoes, which are buzzing in the armor, in the squares, on the river or by the lake and under the windows. Photo Piskun - below.
- The rear legs at the bloodstream are long, so when landing it holds a torso almost at right angles, roughly speaking, get up.
- Females have head tentacles and protruding trumps, and on the wings - by the ellipsoid spot.
To note: they bite and drink blood only female Anofelhes, males - harmless.
- Before you get on the skin of a person, the bloodstream makes several circles above the landing place, as if fulfilling a ritual dance.
- It dwells such an unpleasant parasitis in almost all regions of the planet, where heat, wet and no protracted winters. In Russia, this is the European part and Western Siberia.
Tip: leaving a picnic, take with me the scaring means from mosquitoes of the aerosol type or cream and apply them in nature.
So, if a breakdown was glanced at the light, do not be afraid, do not shout and do not fuss. Just open the window and release it to the will is a long miracle.