Yellow fever mosquito
The yellow fever mosquito is a small dark mosquito with white rings on its legs. On its back it has a white pattern shaped like a lyre, an old kind of harp. It first came from Africa and now lives in warm places all over the world.
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Fun facts
Its eggs can stay alive for more than a year when dry and hatch when water comes back.
The female finds people by smelling the air we breathe out and the smell of our skin.
Its eggs are white when they are laid and turn black soon after.
Its name means the unpleasant one from Egypt.
The females are bigger than the males.
Most asked questions about Yellow fever mosquito
?How long does a yellow fever mosquito live?
A grown-up lives two to four weeks, but its eggs can last more than a year.
?How big is a yellow fever mosquito?
About 4 to 7 millimetres long.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Aedes aegypti
- Group
- Flies and mosquitoes
- Family
- Culicidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Diptera > Culicidae
- Lives on
- Africa, North America, South America, Asia, Australia and Oceania
Where the facts come from
- Aedes aegypti (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 Pedro Chagas. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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