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Northern House Mosquito

Culex pipiens

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Culex pipiens by bonitin
Order
Diptera
Family
Culicidae
Genus
Culex
Species
pipiens

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(Zone 8a) | October 2006 | Neutral
I know that everyone hates this creature and I'm certainly not an exception ! Even so, I think that if we can put these negative emotions aside one can still discover some strange beauty in it. But the picture is of a male, so it doesn't sting!
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