Finding standing water and getting rid of it so they breed up less is best. Otherwise screen the house, repellent and marry or make friends with someone mosquitos like more. #Toxorhynchites speciosus wrigglers eat most problem species wrigglers, but need to breed them up somehow.

📸 Huge thanks to Nil Rahola and Luciano Mucci for their outstanding macrophotography work.
🔗 All publications are freely available on Zenodo.

#Entomology #Mosquitoes #Culicidae #Anopheles #Toxorhynchites #Biodiversity #Taxonomy #VectorBiology #Zenodo #Research #Afrotropical

Clé d'identification des espèces de Toxorhynchites (Diptera : Culicidae), femelles, Région Afrotropicale. Clé dichotomique commentée, en français, pour l'identification des espèces de moustiques du genre Toxorhynchites (DIPTERA : Culicidae) de la région afrotropicale. La clé est valide pour…

We also released, simultaneously, a key to the females of the genus Toxorhynchites (in French as well). 🔗 buff.ly/utagZhu
And the French key to Anopheles is already available on Zenodo!
🔗 buff.ly/jme4oMY

#Toxorhynchites #Anopheles

Its easy to hate mosquito, but its also surprisingly easy to love them, once you meet #Toxorhynchites speciosus! Not only is it a mosquito that eats mosquitos, but its HUGE and colourful :)