Stock photography picture of SEM of a male common house mosquito Culex pipiens with prominent brush antennae and proboscis mag...

ACK3ME - Licenced Description SEM of a male common house mosquito Culex pipiens with prominent brush antennae and proboscis mag 2 5x at 24 x 36 mm Male mosquitoes do not feed on blood but suck plant juices and nectar with its proboscis Culex pipiens is the primary vector of West Nile virus in the United States it also transmits encephalitis and filariasis Ailment America American Anatomical Anatomy Anatomy General Animal Head Animal Anatomy Animal Antenna Arbovirus Arthropod Arthropod Anatomy Arthropod Borne Virus Arthropoda Biological Biology Blood Sucker Bloodsucker Blood Sucker Body of Water Bug Central Nervous System Disease Chemical Chemistry Common Compound Compound Eye Concept Continent Culex Culex Pipiens Culicidae Culicoidea Diptera Direction Disease Disorder Encephalitis Endopterygota Eukaryotae Eukaryote Filaria Filariasis Flavivirus Flaviviridae Fly Geographic Geography Hair Head Hexapoda House Illness Insect Insect Anatomy Insect Head Insecta Invertebrate Invertebrate Anatomy Land Life Science Male Medical Medicine Meningitis Microbiology Micrograph Micrography Microscopy Mosquito Mouth Nature Nematocera Nematoda Nematode Nematode Worm Neoptera Nervous System Disease Neurological Disease Nile Nile River North North America Northern Organism Pathogen Pathogenesis Pathogenic Pathogen Transmission Parasite Parasitic Parasitology Pipiens Primary Proboscis Pterygota River RNA Virus Roundworm Scanning Scanning Electron Micrograph Science SEM St Louis Encephalitis Stream Taxonomic Adjective Transmit Transmitter Transmission True Flies U S U S U S A United States Vector Viral Viral Encephalitis Virology Virus Virus Group Water West West Nile Virus West Nile Western Equine Encephalitis Wing