Mosquitoes - Family Culicidae
This page contains pictures and information about Mosquitoes that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
- Mosquitoes could be the most encountered insects when we go for bush-walking and taking insect photos. They usually found us first before we found them. However, only a few species of mosquitoes suck human blood. Some species suck blood from other vertebrate animals, such as birds, reptiles and frogs. Some species do not suck blood at all.
- For those blood-sucking species, only the females suck blood. They require a blood meal before their eggs can mature. They suck blood using their elongated mouth-parts to pierce the host's skin. Males do not suck blood and usually have the slender body.
- Their larvae are all aquatic.
- Mosquito
- ? sp., subfamily CULICINAE, body length 6mm
- We have only this piece of information about mosquitoes in our web site, although they were the most often encountered insects when we were in the bush looking for other insects.
- Predatory Mosquito
- Toxorhynchites sp., Subfamily TOXORHYNCHITINAE, body length 12mm
- We some time found this fly resting on leaf or tree trunk. Its wing patterns mimic a head on its end tip. This is quite a large mosquito. Notice its plumose bushy antenna, this shows that the mosquito is a male. More information and pictures please click on here.
