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Female mosquito mouthparts are highly adapted to piercing skin and sucking blood. Males only drink sugary fluids, and have less specialized mouthparts.[46] Externally, the most obvious feeding structure of the mosquito is the proboscis, composed of the labium, U-shaped in section like a rain gutter, which sheaths a bundle (fascicle) of six ...
Dengue fever is a mosquito-borne tropical disease caused by dengue virus. It is frequently asymptomatic; if symptoms appear they typically begin 3 to 14 days after infection. These may include a high fever, headache, vomiting, muscle and joint pains, and a characteristic skin itching and skin rash. Recovery generally takes two to seven days.
- ~40,000 (2017)
- Fever, headache, muscle and joint pain, rash
Malaria is a mosquito-borne infectious disease that affects vertebrates.[6][7][3] Human malaria causes symptoms that typically include fever, fatigue, vomiting, and headaches.[1][8] In severe cases, it can cause jaundice, seizures, coma, or death.[1] [9]Symptoms usually begin 10 to 15 days after being bitten by an infected Anopheles mosquito ...
Leucippus was a Greek philosopher of the 5th century BCE. He is credited with founding atomism, with his student Democritus. Leucippus divided the world into two entities: atoms, indivisible particles that make up all things, and the void, the nothingness between the atoms. Leucippus's ideas were influential in ancient and Renaissance philosophy.
Crane fly. A crane fly is any member of the dipteran superfamily Tipuloidea, which contains the living families Cylindrotomidae, Limoniidae, Pediciidae and Tipulidae, as well as several extinct families. "Winter crane flies", members of the family Trichoceridae, are sufficiently different from the typical crane flies of Tipuloidea to be ...
Hydrogen peroxide (H 2 O 2) is a nonplanar molecule with (twisted) C 2 symmetry; this was first shown by Paul-Antoine Giguère in 1950 using infrared spectroscopy.Although the O−O bond is a single bond, the molecule has a relatively high rotational barrier of 386 cm −1 (4.62 kJ/mol) for rotation between enantiomers via the trans configuration, and 2460 cm −1 (29.4 kJ/mol) via the cis ...
Yosemite National Park (/ j oʊ ˈ s ɛ m ɪ t i / yoh-SEM-ih-tee) is a national park in California. It is bordered on the southeast by Sierra National Forest and on the northwest by Stanislaus National Forest.The park is managed by the National Park Service and covers 759,620 acres (1,187 sq mi; 3,074 km 2) in four counties – centered in Tuolumne and Mariposa, extending north and east to ...
