Plains floodwater mosquito
The plains floodwater mosquito is a medium-sized mosquito with a striped back. Two pale yellowish stripes run down its back with a dark stripe in the middle. After a flood it can suddenly appear in big numbers.
How fast is it?
Fun facts
Its eggs can wait in dry soil for up to 8 months until water comes and they can hatch.
The babies, called larvae, live in water and grow from about 2 to about 7 millimetres long.
The males come out first and dance in a swarm above the water, waiting for the females.
In hot weather it can grow from egg to flying mosquito in only 5 days.
Most asked questions about Plains floodwater mosquito
?Does the plains floodwater mosquito bite people?
Yes, the females bite people and animals such as rabbits and raccoons to get blood for their eggs.
?Why is it called a floodwater mosquito?
Because its eggs lie in places that often flood, and lots of mosquitoes hatch after the water comes.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Aedes trivittatus
- Group
- Flies and mosquitoes
- Family
- Culicidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Diptera > Culicidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Aedes trivittatus (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 Jesse Rorabaugh. CC0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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