Mosquito Egg

You can see the eye of this developed mosquito egg at 1:1

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Christine Young

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Is this egg in water? Did you find it in water or mud? Posted 7 years ago
1. Stephen Philips
  
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  I scooped the larvae out of a pond and took the pictures from a Perrine dish with a white piece of paper underneath it. Posted 7 years ago
2. 1. Christine Young
    
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    Okay, got it. This isn't a mosquito egg. Unfortunately, I don't know what it is. Some mosquitoes lay eggs in water in the shape of a raft (a bunch of eggs "stuck" together in an upright position), such as Culex species. Others, like Aedes species, lay single eggs on mud that hatch with rain/spring thaw/rising water levels. Aedes eggs are ovoid and melanize to a dark blackish color. Anopheline eggs are laid singly, but are also dark, and they have little "floaters" on the sides of each egg - kind of like water wings. Posted 7 years ago

Christine Young

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This link shows pictures of various mosquito eggs fyi. The rafts are really cool, and I often find them in containers that have water in them. A challenge to photograph though. http://entoplp.okstate.edu/mosquito/biology/ Posted 7 years ago

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Uploaded Oct 5, 2015. Captured in 23645 SW Elderberry Ln, West Linn, OR 97068, USA.

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