An Anopheles stephensimosquito is obtaining a blood meal from a human host through its pointed proboscis. Note the droplet of blood being expelled from the abdomen after having engorged itself on its host’s blood. This mosquito is a known malarial vector with a distribution that ranges from Egypt all the way to China. Source: CDC
2005-07-06 02:51 Rsabbatini 700×463×8 (29941 bytes) An ''Anopheles stephensi'' [[mosquito]] is obtaining a [[blood]] meal from a human host through its pointed [[proboscis]]. Note the droplet of blood being expelled from the abdomen after having engorged itself on its host’s blood. This mosquito is a kno
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