Southern house mosquito
The southern house mosquito is a small brown mosquito that loves living near people's homes in warm countries. The females need a drink of blood before they can lay eggs. It rests in trees and other high places during the day and is busy at night.
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Fun facts
The babies live in water and filter tiny bits of food out of it with little brushes around their mouths.
From egg to flying mosquito can take just one week when it is warm.
A mother lays her eggs stuck together in little floating rafts, with 100 to 300 eggs in each.
Its name says five bands, but with better microscopes scientists later counted more than five.
The males have big feathery feelers, so they are easy to tell apart from the females.
Most asked questions about Southern house mosquito
?What does the southern house mosquito eat?
Both males and females drink sugary plant juice. Females also drink blood so they can make eggs.
?Where does it lay its eggs?
In dirty standing water, like blocked drains and puddles. The eggs float together like a little raft.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Culex quinquefasciatus
- Named by
- Say, 1823
- Group
- Flies and mosquitoes
- Family
- Culicidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Diptera > Culicidae
- Lives on
- North America, South America, Africa, Asia, Australia and Oceania
- Also known as
- Quinx
Where the facts come from
- Culex quinquefasciatus (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 CDC/ James Gathany. Public domain, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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