Belonging to the Culicidae family, mosquitoes often resemble chironomids and crane flies. Whether it is a dengue mosquito or a normal mosquito these flies have a slender segmentary body with three pairs of long legs, mouth parts that are elongated, and a pair of wings.
The female of several species of mosquitoes is responsible for causing diseases such as dengue, malaria, chikungunya, etc. while on the other hand, the males are harmless as they feed only on sugary fluids.
In this article, you will be reading about how you can differentiate between a dengue mosquito and a normal mosquito.
Dengue Mosquito
It is a mosquito that comes under the category of genera Aedes. Dengue mosquitoes are small, having white bands on their legs. The virus is carried in their saliva. Dengue transmission has raised since the 1940s, and it is caused by female dengue mosquitoes. The mosquitoes from the families of Aedes albopictus, and Aedes aegpti are accountable for the transmission of this disease.
Female mosquitoes behave as vectors that transfer the virus between a normal person and an infected through their saliva. They normally sting in cold temperatures but can not survive in temperatures colder than 10 centigrade. And these famous mosquitoes do not fly above 1000 m. These mosquitoes bite create a headache, skin rash, high fever, muscle, and joint pain. Commonly, in severe cases, it is called dengue “hemorrhagic fever”.
The male population of dengue mosquitoes is in a smaller proportion than its female counterpart. The Aedes aegyptis mosquitoes live indoors and lay eggs for new dengue mosquitoes in water.
Fact: dengue mosquitoes bite during the daytime. According to the statistics provided by WHO, 10,000 to 20,000 people die due to dengue hemorrhagic fever every year. And approximately around 50 to 528 million people are affected by the dengue virus per annum.
Normal Mosquito
The mosquitoes in this category are midge-like flies that fall under the family of Culicidae that lacks dengue viral particle in their saliva. Most of the female population of many mosquito species are ectoparasites. Through their proboscis, they prick the host’s skin and then suck blood. These female mosquitoes can also attack vertebrates as well as invertebrates. Even though they sting the skin of the host, they don’t transfer diseases such as dengue.
The male population of normal mosquitoes feeds on nectar. The life cycle of this species has a complete metamorphosis with four stages:
- Egg
- Larva
- Pupa
- Adult
Normal mosquitoes are capable of living in both cold and hot weather conditions. As they usually live indoors and outdoors. You can easily use a mosquito spray to get rid of them in no time.
Differences Between Normal And Dengue Mosquitoes
You can easily differentiate between normal and dengue mosquitoes by keeping in mind the following points:
- Size – Normal mosquitoes are significantly large. On the other hand, dengue mosquitoes are smaller.
- Body feature – Normal mosquitoes don’t have silver-white on their body nor do theory have white bands on their legs. Contrastingly, dengue mosquitoes have both.
- Active time – Dengue mosquitoes bite particularly in the daylight. Meanwhile, normal mosquitoes bite both during the daytime and nighttime.
- Nature of bite – You can’t sense a dengue bite, but the bite of a normal mosquito is sensible.
- Living Environment – dengue mosquitoes are confined to domestic weather conditions which means they can not survive in cold weather. However, normal mosquitoes are capable of living in both weather conditions, as they live indoors and outdoors as well.
- Places of laying eggs – normal mosquitoes lay eggs not only in stagnant water but also in water edges or aquatic plants. Oppositely, dengue mosquitoes lay eggs, particularly in still water.
Summing Up!
To summarize the above words, mosquitoes are parasite flies that come from the family of Culicidae. They look like crane flies along with chironomid flies. The female counterpart of dengue mosquitoes is responsible for transmitting the dengue virus.
You can either try different home remedies to kill dengue mosquitoes, or you can even call professionals from Swiftcare for dengue fumigation. Our expert exterminators are fully trained and having years of experience, we use high-quality equipment to provide you with guaranteed results.
Author Bio:
Kamil Riaz Kara is a content contributor at Mainstream and associated with digital marketing for the last seven years. Presently working at Digital Eggheads, a digital marketing agency in Pakistan.
