macro photography of a feeding mosquito

[Ecooper]

Hi all,

Not for the squeamish: the photo below is of a feeding mosquito: one of a series of pictures I posted on my blog last night of this mosquito slowly filled its gut with my blood!

Cheers,

EC

www.macrocritters.wordpress.com



mosquito 7 copyright Ernie Cooper 2012 sm for post by ernie.cooper, on Flickr

 

[agent A]

sometimes i let mosquitoes drink my blood to watch them swell with it...

 

[Ecooper]

sometimes i let mosquitoes drink my blood to watch them swell with it...

Seriously? I'd only do that to get a photo! : )

EC

www.macrocritters.wordpress.com

 

[Paradoxica]

Ah! West-Nile virus!

Nice photo though.

 

[Ecooper]

Ah! West-Nile virus!

Nice photo though.

Hahahaha! Thanks! So far there hasn't been any West Nile virus found in BC this year. Fingers crossed...

Cheers,

EC

www.macrocritters.wordpress.com

 

[Mime454]

Hahahaha! Thanks! So far there hasn't been any West Nile virus found in BC this year. Fingers crossed...

Cheers,

EC

www.macrocritters.wordpress.com

There's always a first.

 

[mutrok4040]

There's always a first.

Lol.

 

[ShieldMantid1997]

one time one was sucking my blood, so i squeezed around it and so much blood went in its abdomen ruptured >.<

 

[Mime454]

one time one was sucking my blood, so i squeezed around it and so much blood went in its abdomen ruptured >.<

God damn, this is better than Twilight!

 

[Ecooper]

one time one was sucking my blood, so i squeezed around it and so much blood went in its abdomen ruptured >.<

I've heard about doing that but haven't tried. Usually I am in a hurry to get them off of me...unless I am trying to photograph them of course!

EC

www.macrocritters.wordpress.com