Mosquito Record 2

(This is a diary record).

Previously one wrote about mosquito here, and today one would like to make a note on a new mosquito species one saw. Unfortunately, one quickly flush it down the toilet and there are no images on it, worrying it might bring diseases.

From one's perspective, the new mosquito is a failure mutation. Previously one mentioned that, mosquito now are 2-3x smaller than what used to be 1-2 decades ago, and one mentioned there are anopheles instead of just aedes found around (at least compared to internet anopheles it seems like same species). The new failed mutation mosquito consists:

• 2-3x larger than the mosquito 1-2 decades ago.

• It has a black head and thorax, but a striped yellowish hue abdomen.

• It is unknown whether it can fly or only "jump". One tries to electrocute it, but it got lucky and stand on only one pole of the electric swatter*, and "flew" away. About 1.5 +- 0.5 meters away, one found it lying on the ground, unable to fly, but can still move its legs. Because one pinch it up on one leg, one isn't sure if it can still walk or not.

That's the new mosquito. A hypothesis is the mosquito is a failed evolutionary merge between Aedes species and Anopheles species. That potentially explains the black stripes (from Aedes) and yellow hue (from Anopheles) in its abdomen. As for why it enlarges to that size, we don't know. Perhaps Mother Nature got its mutation wrong. With the toilet now down the lavatory, we couldn't confirm.

So be careful. According to Wikipedia, there are quite a genera of mosquitoes there. One isn't sure if they listed moderns only, or includes those from dinosaur periods. Anyway, one only heard of (modern ones) the Aenopheles and the Aedes, one vector for Malaria, one for Aedes. The others may be more "country specific" and not known worldwide.

And what one wants to say is, do you guys notice how fast species evolved? It doesn't seems like how we heard, taking millions or billions of years to change. Or perhaps this is just a small evolution? Do take care though, what if we have a new species of mosquito that merge? And what disease would it vector?

*P.S. if you don't already know, you only get electrocuted if you stand on two poles. That's why bird don't get electrocuted standing on power grids.

Extra Info on Housefly

One haven't mentioned this before, but housefly have also mutated in the past decades. It used to be this medium sized species, but now the medium sized is gone, mostly replaced by small size species, and occasionaly you can see giant sized species.

The small size species are generally attracted to my dogs, having 10s of them stick to his buttocks while he lie down napping. They seems to like the smell of dogs more. In one period where one had no dogs, this species is less seen than the giant ones. Sometimes, they also like their own species' corpse. This means if you have an electric swatter, you could kill dozens of them quickly by laying their corpse below the electric swatter and wait for them to come before quickly "swipe up" and they'll be electrocuted.

The giant species are true "housefly" in which they love to go into homes to stick to your food (and lay their eggs there). However, this species, although still quick in reaction, isn't quick with their body reaction anymore. In fact, their giant size (compared to their wings) greatly decreases their agility to change direction quickly enough, nor are they flying fast enough. But of course, it's still not easy to catch this with an electric swatter, at least for normal human reaction: you may react to it, but your hands cannot move fast enough to where you want it to be.

Talking about electric swatter: note that the small ones are easily electrocuted to barbeque (you know they die when you smell barbequed housefly, and see white smoke rise from their corpse). However, giant housefly don't get kill so easily: you might need to electrocute them for half a minute or so to get them barbequed. Otherwise, they'll paralyzed for some time before waking up and continue flying as if nothing had happened.