Aedes rusticus

Aedes rusticus
Aedes rusticus North Wales
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Culicidae
Subfamily:	Culicinae
Genus:	Aedes
Subgenus:	Ochlerotatus
Species:	A. rusticus
Binomial name
Aedes (Ochlerotatus) rusticus (Rossi, 1790)
Synonyms
Aedes diversus Theobald 1901 Ochlerotatus rusticus (Rossi, 1790)

Aedes diversus Theobald 1901 Ochlerotatus rusticus (Rossi, 1790)

Aedes rusticus, it is a relatively common European mosquito, that is often responsible for human bites from May to August. Like all mosquitoes, it is only the females that bite.

Aedes rusticus has a patchy distribution, from Britain (mainly southern), Belgium, Denmark, Poland, Russia, The Balkans and as far as Asia Minor.

Following a mammal blood meal to provide sufficient protein to produce eggs, females will lay their egg rafts in spring or summer in dried-up pools, they will hatch when the pools flood later in the year. They will overwinter in the 4th larval stage, pupation and adult emergence take place the following spring.

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