Culicidae

She was bugging me,the cat, and she looked like she wanted wet cat food.
Culex stigmatosomais known as the Banded Foul Water Mosquito due to its association with polluted water and can be found in most California counties.
The Banded Foul Water Mosquito is a dark bodied, medium-sized mosquito with a prominent white band on its proboscis (beak) and white bands on the tarsi (feet). It is further characterized by black scales which form “o” spots on the underside of the blunt-tipped abdomen. This mosquito most closely resembles Culex tarsalisbut lacks the white stripe on the hind legs.
Foul Water Mosquitoes do occasionally create domestic, industrial and agricultural pest problems when they are present in large numbers. Although Western Equine Encephalitis and St. Louis Encephalitis has been isolated from natural populations of these mosquitoes, their reluctance to bite humans reduces their efficiency as disease carriers. This species has recently been identified as a carrier of West Nile Virus, a mosquito-borne disease that is rapidly spreading across the United States.