Tuesday, April 29, 2014
Case of the Week 302
Several small dark-colored irregular "soot-like" objects (~1/4 inch long x 1/8 inch wide) were found floating on the surface of murky water in a neglected bird bath in late Spring. One such cluster was scooped out mostly intact and mounted on a slide for further examination. It is shown below. Identification?
I'm not a mycologist... but these would appear to be fungal spores of some sort.
ReplyDeleteI would guess its a mosquito egg packet. Culex species?
ReplyDeleteMosquito (culex) egg rafts
ReplyDeleteI go with mosquito egg bundles. bw in vt
ReplyDeleteMosquito egg rafts. I used to raise mosquitos and fed the females on my arms. They required a blood meal to produce eggs.
ReplyDeleteI agree. It looks like mosquito egg rafts!
ReplyDeleteCulex mosquito egg rafts
ReplyDeleteAfter in-depth research on google images ;) , Culex mosquito egg rafts.
ReplyDeleteLee
Culex egg raft. Anopheles eggs would have lateral floats, Aedes doesn't lay eggs onto the water and Mansonia's eggs are laid just under the water surface (and have a spiny ending).
ReplyDeleteThat's an entire collection of answers. I would go with Tomas's answer.
ReplyDeleteFlorida Fan
Agree with Culex eggs which are stuck together in rafts. However, this characteristic is not specific to Culex only, as Culiseta's eggs can be also arranged in rafts.
ReplyDeleteJamal
I think this is a culicine mosquito egg raft.
ReplyDeleteprobably of the genus Aedes.
I think our hostess of the mostess weirdness is on vacation this week possibly plotting a really tough case.
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