Asian malaria mosquito
The Asian malaria mosquito is a small mosquito that lives in and around towns and cities. Its babies grow in water tanks, pots and other containers. The females drink blood and can carry malaria, a serious illness.
How fast is it?
Fun facts
Its babies can even grow in water as salty as the sea.
It likes the hot dry season, when many other mosquitoes are rare.
It has spread to Africa, where it was first found in Djibouti around 2012.
Scientists have made special mosquitoes of this kind that cannot carry malaria.
It likes warm weather best, around 27 to 30 degrees.
Most asked questions about Asian malaria mosquito
?What does the Asian malaria mosquito eat?
Females drink blood to make eggs, and males drink flower nectar.
?Where does the Asian malaria mosquito live?
In India, the Middle East and South Asia, and now in parts of East Africa too, mostly in towns.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Anopheles stephensi
- Group
- Flies and mosquitoes
- Family
- Culicidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Diptera > Culicidae
- Lives on
- Asia, Africa
Where the facts come from
- Anopheles stephensi (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Jim Gathany. Public domain, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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