Eastern treehole mosquito
The eastern treehole mosquito is a dark mosquito with a brown stripe down its back and silvery white sides. It gets its name because it likes to lay its eggs in little pools of rainwater inside holes in trees.
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Fun facts
Besides tree holes, it also lays its eggs in water that collects in old car tyres.
Its eggs hatch when rain fills up their pool. Not all of them hatch at once, in case the pool dries out again.
In the north only its eggs survive the winter.
In 2004 some of these mosquitoes hid in a ship full of tyres going from America to France, but people found them and stopped them.
Most asked questions about Eastern treehole mosquito
?Where does the eastern treehole mosquito lay its eggs?
In rainwater inside tree holes, and also in old tyres and other things that hold water.
?How can we keep these mosquitoes away?
Tip out water standing in buckets, toys and bottle caps, and cover water barrels.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Aedes triseriatus
- Group
- Flies and mosquitoes
- Family
- Culicidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Diptera > Culicidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Aedes triseriatus (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 CDC/ James Gathany. Public domain, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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