07-12-2014, 12:33 PM
The three mosquitoes here make distinctly different bites. The day-biting tiger mosquito, Aedes albopictus, makes small bites that last only a day or so. They're the most abundant by far, though I seem to be becoming a little resistant to the effect of their bites lately. The night-biting mosquito, Culex, makes really big bites (over an inch across) that last for a couple of weeks and itch that whole time. A more recent arrival, called Wyeomyia, also makes smaller bites but they last longer than Aedes. You can recognize it because it sits with two of its legs curled way over instead of just sticking up, and it breeds only bromeliads, so if you get rid of them you won't have any around.