Howard's gallinipper
Howard's gallinipper is a very big mosquito with shaggy, hairy legs in yellow and purple. It lives in warm places in North and Central America. Its long beak is so strong that it can poke through several layers of clothes.
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Fun facts
Its babies are big and hungry. They hunt the babies of other mosquitoes in the water.
Its eggs wait in dry ground and hatch when rain or watering fills the hollows.
Its body has a wide patch of white scales on the tail end.
You can find its babies in sunny rain puddles from March to October.
Most asked questions about Howard's gallinipper
?How big is Howard's gallinipper?
Its body is about 8 to 10 millimetres long, which is very big for a mosquito.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Psorophora howardii
- Named by
- Coquillett, 1901
- Group
- Flies and mosquitoes
- Family
- Culicidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Diptera > Culicidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Psorophora howardii (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 kcthetc1. CC0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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