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Re: Daphnia

We have them in Hawaii.  They were brought in as a biological control agent
for the other mosquitos.  Apparently they are predatory as immatures (eat
other aquatic insects, daphnia, tadpoles, etc).  Makes rearing difficult
one immature per tank (like N. ocellatus). The adults are nectar feeders.
They are huge (dime sized) and brilliant blue.  Genus Toxirehchites (sp?).
Trivia note,  in the movie Jurassic Park, the mosquito that they showed in
amber that the  dino DNA was extracted from was one of these mosquitos and
it was a male.  So the entomology people said 1: how did a male mosquito
bite a dinosaur and 2: being that this genus are exclusively nectar
feeders.....

MTF

>> a very large mosquito called the golly nipper - huge thing and its larvae
>eat  other mosquito larvae.
>
>Isn't that an African species? Steve Saul, many years ago, secured some from
>a university project for a program. He maintained that since it gets its
>blood via predatory larvae, it didn't need to bite people - a good thing
>considering its size!
>
>Or is there an American version we don't want to meet while swimming? (Maybe
>those are what the Canadians are using even as they claim credit for a
>miracle wonder growing water.)     ;-)
>
>All the best!
>
>Scott
>
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