| Culcididae
(Mosquitoes) are extremely difficult to identify and
certainly not safely identifiable via photographs. They
have been neglected by the county's naturalists and there
are very few modern records of any species in
Nottinghamshire. Often known as the Common House
Mosquito, Culex pipiens exists in two forms
- the typical Culex pipiens and Culex
pipiens f.molestus (Forskål, 1775). Both are structurally identical. Often the
commonest Mosquito found in urban areas, the males feed
on nectar but the females take blood, although it is only
the molestus form which bites humans. |
