File:Aedes aegypti CDC9178.tif
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Aedes aegypti (Linnaeus, 1762) |
Photographer |
James Gathany |
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Description |
This 2006 image depicted a female Aedes aegypti mosquito as she was completing the activity of obtaining a blood-meal from a human host through her fascicle, which she’d begun to resheath in her labium. Both structures are part of her feeding organ known as the proboscis. In this case, what would normally be an unsuspecting host was actually the CDC’s biomedical photographer’s own hand, which he’d offered to the hungry mosquito so that she’d alight, and be photographed while feeding. After it filled with blood, the abdomen became distended, stretching the exterior exoskeletal surface, thereby, causing it to become transparent, allowing the collecting blood to become visible as an enlarging intra-abdominal red mass. Content Providers(s): CDC/ Prof. Frank Hadley Collins, Dir., Cntr. for Global Health and Infectious Diseases, Univ. of Notre Dame |
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Gender InfoField | Female | ||||||
Date | 2006 | ||||||
Source | https://phil.cdc.gov/phil/details.asp?pid=9178 | ||||||
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https://phil.cdc.gov/phil/details.asp?pid=9178, was reviewed on 25 December 2016 by reviewer 1989, who confirmed that it was available there under the stated license on that date.
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Author | Photographer: James Gathany |
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Width | 3,880 px |
Height | 2,608 px |
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Compression scheme | LZW |
Pixel composition | RGB |
Orientation | Normal |
Number of components | 3 |
Number of rows per strip | 22 |
Horizontal resolution | 300 dpi |
Vertical resolution | 300 dpi |
Data arrangement | chunky format |
Software used | Adobe Photoshop CS6 (Windows) |
File change date and time | 09:59, 25 December 2016 |
Color space | sRGB |