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Re: Mosquito larva attacks baby fish!

Actually there are a fair number of mosquitoes that have predatory larvae.
One example was brought to Hawaii as a biological control agent for, of all
things, other mosquitoes.  These larvae get to be fairly large and can eat
Daphnia, other aquatic insect larvae and the tadpoles of the poison dart
frogs found in Manoa Valley (it is a big mosquito, the larvae looked like
they were an inch long easily). I suspect that this group of "Elephant
mosquitoes"  (*Toxorhynchites* sp.) are not unique and examples of other
genera, of the family Culicidae  (Mosquitoes) that display this adaptive
shift will be found in the other parts of the world.  We are just to often
expecting *Aedes* or *Culex* type mosquitoes.....
MTF
----- Original Message -----
From: "-RJ-" <TranquilityBase at NetZero_Net>
To: <killietalk at aka_org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 9:56 PM
Subject: RE: Mosquito larva attacks baby fish!


> Wright,
>
>
> I think you got it backwards your supposed to feed the mosquito larvae to
> the fish not the other way around! By the way I read some time back that
> feeding mosquito fry to small fish was not recommended for the reason you
> indicated. But that warning was in regard to white mosquito larvae
Corethra
> and not Culex.  By the way the same book warns that Cyclops can also eat
> small fry.
>
> Best regards,
>
> -RJ-
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-killietalk at aka_org [mailto:owner-killietalk at aka_org]On
> Behalf Of Wright Huntley
> Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 12:40 AM
> To: killies at mejac_palo-alto.ca.us; AKA mail list
> Subject: Mosquito larva attacks baby fish!
>
>
>
> I now have an eye witness!
>
> Me.
>
> I was taken to task a while back for suspecting that mosquito larvae might
> bother fry. I was assured they are pure filter feeders. Believing what I
was
> told, I relaxed about them a bit.
>
> I fed some baby moina in green water to some hatching *Fundulasoma
thierii*,
> earlier today. I (unfortunately) let one big mosquito wriggler sneak into
> the bowl with the other live foods.
>
> As I sat watching the babies try to capture the immature moina, I saw the
> mosquito swing out and grab a tiny new baby. The fish was struggling and
> nearly ingested when I turned away to get a baster to suck them out of the
> water. By the time I looked back, the baby was swallowed. Both got fed to
a
> tank of nearby adults.
>
> I'm now convinced that those evil mouth claws are not just for brushing
out
> their beard. If this was filter feeding, then it's one damned coarse
filter!
>
> Wright
>
> --
> Wright Huntley, Fremont CA, USA, 510 494-8679  huntley1 at home_com
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