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  • Home
  • WHAT WE DO
  • WHO WE ARE
  • Gallery
    • Mosquito Surveillance
    • Mosquito Larvae Abatement
    • Adult Mosquito Abatement
    • Mosquito Identification
    • Mosquito Trapping
  • Blog
  • Board Meetings
  • EMPLOYMENT
  • Contact
  • No Spray Form

Identification

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Female and Male mosquitoes feed on plant nectars
Only the female bites and takes a blood meal for the sole purpose of reproduction
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Female Culex pipien feeding on cantaloupe
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Mosquito Larvae
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Culex tarsalis (can vector the WNV but most noted for the transmission of St. Louis Encephalitis (SLE) and Western Equine Encephalitis (WEE))
Photo by Gina Hampton
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The 'House Mosquito'
Main vector, or carrier, of St. Louis Encephalitis, West Nile Virus, Western Equine Encephalitis, Heartworm in dogs, and bird malaria
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PictureAedes vexans (a flood water species)
(Vector of WNV & Dog Heartworm)
Most abundant mosquito in the Animas Valley

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Mosquito pupae
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Animas Mosquito Control District
870 Co Rd 252 
Durango, CO 81301
​(970) 247-1483