White-kneed mosquito
Aedes alboannulatus
The white-kneed mosquito is a mosquito from southern Australia. Its babies grow up in pools of rainwater, in sunny places and in forests. The females like to bite people, especially in the evening.
Lives in
Southern Australia, including Tasmania
Can it hurt you?
Can bite
The females bite and the bite can itch. It can carry a virus in the lab, but it is bad at spreading it.
What does it eat?
The females drink blood from people and birds. Males of mosquitoes drink plant juices instead.
How fast is it?
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
White-kneed mosquito about 2 km/h (1.2 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
It lays its eggs on the mud of pools that are drying up. The eggs can survive drying out.
2
It usually bites at dusk, or during the day in shady places.
3
It bites birds as well as people.
4
In the lab it can carry a virus called Murray Valley encephalitis, but other mosquitoes spread it much better.
you asked
Most asked questions about White-kneed mosquito
?Does the white-kneed mosquito bite?
Yes. The females bite people readily, mostly at dusk or in shade.
?Where does the white-kneed mosquito live?
Across southern Australia, near the coast and inland, and in Tasmania.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Aedes alboannulatus
- Group
- Flies and mosquitoes
- Family
- Culicidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Diptera > Culicidae
- Lives on
- Australia and Oceania
Where the facts come from
- Aedes alboannulatus (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Rolf Lawrenz. CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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