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Hidden within this mosquito’s straw-like proboscis is a tube with a very sharp tip designed for piercing skin.
Hidden within this mosquito’s straw-like proboscis is a tube with a very sharp tip designed for piercing skin.
House Fly. (Julia Wilkins / Wiki; CC**
The blood of a human volunteer can be seen filling the abdomen of this mosquito, Armigeres subalbatus, as she feeds. (James Gathany, CDC; PD)
Compound eyes of a fly.
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House Fly (Musca domestica). (Julia Wilkins / Wiki; CC BY-SA 3.0)
Mosquito larvae live in water (shown here: Culex sp. (James Gathany / CDC; CC BY 2.5)
Head of a long-legged fly (Family: Dolichopodinae). (Donald Jusa / Flickr; CC BY 2.0)
Pretty Picture-winged Flies are fruit flies. Shown here: Chetostoma curvinerve. (gailhampshire / Flickr; CC BY 2.0)