Mosquitoes 



Life History of a Mosquito 



(Culex pimgens Wiedemann.^ 



This common and widespread mosquito, which occurs from 

 the White Mountains in New Hampshire to Cuba, and from 

 British Columbia to Mexico, lays its eggs, numbering from 200 

 to 400, in a raft-like mass on the surface of the water. The eggs 



Fig. 58. — Psorophora ciliata : Female — enlarged. (Author's illustration.) 



are laid side by side, standing on end and stuck close together in 

 longitudinal rows six to thirteen in number and with from three 

 or four to forty eggs in a row. The egg mass is gray-brown 



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