Gallinipper
The gallinipper is a very big, yellowish mosquito with shaggy, striped legs. It is much bigger than the mosquitoes most people know. It is famous for being bold and biting a lot.
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Fun facts
Its babies are hunters. They live in puddles and eat other mosquito babies and tadpoles.
It is easy to spot because of its hairy, shaggy legs with stripes.
Some of its eggs can wait on dry ground for months or even years, and hatch when rain fills a puddle.
The males have bushy feelers, while the females do not, like all mosquitoes.
It can bite both in the daytime and at night.
Most asked questions about Gallinipper
?Does the gallinipper bite?
Yes. The females bite people and animals, and because it is so big the bite can hurt.
?How big is a gallinipper?
Its wings are about 7 to 9 millimetres across, which is very big for a mosquito.
?Where do gallinippers live?
In North America east of the Rocky Mountains, and south into Central and South America, in woods and fields.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Psorophora ciliata
- Group
- Flies and mosquitoes
- Family
- Culicidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Diptera > Culicidae
- Lives on
- North America, South America
- Also known as
- Shaggy-legged gallinipper
Where the facts come from
- Psorophora ciliata (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 xpda. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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