There are several species of scorpion such as Euscorpius carpathicus whose venom is generally no more potent than a mosquito bite.

For urban dwellers, spending vacations and camping out in the wilderness or sleeping at hostels or mud houses in endemic areas can be dangerous ; a mosquito net is recommended.

The impact energy of a small mosquito flying into a wall is equal to about 1 erg

The park is a large open space with rectangular mounds and voids on the ground .< sup > photo </ sup > At first the park was criticized for being relatively uninviting ( with punched card pits promoting mosquito infestation and preventing safe active recreation ) and lacked trees or structures to shade students from the sun.

In the hills, conversion of forests to agricultural land — even on steep hillsides via terracing — is historically important, but has lessened in recent decades due to a shortage of remaining suitable terrain in the hills while mosquito suppression having opened formerly malarial land for settlement in the Terai.

An example is the malaria parasite which can spread from a person near death, by hitching a ride to a healthy person on a mosquito that has bitten the diseased person.

The virus is transmitted through mosquito vectors, as well as through contact with the tissue of infected animals.

The yellow fever virus is transmitted by the bite of female mosquitoes ( the yellow fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti, and other species ) and is found in tropical and subtropical areas in South America and Africa, but not in Asia.

Since no therapy is known, vaccination programs are of great importance in affected areas, along with measures to prevent bites and reduce the population of the transmitting mosquito.

The yellow fever virus is mainly transmitted through the bite of the yellow fever mosquito Aedes aegypti, but other mosquitoes such as the " tiger mosquito " ( Aedes albopictus ) can also serve as a vector for the virus.

Like other Arboviruses which are transmitted via mosquitoes, the yellow fever virus is taken up by a female mosquito which sucks the blood of an infected person.

Viruses reach the stomach of the mosquito, and if the virus concentration is high enough, the virions can infect epithelial cells and replicate there.

In the urban cycle, only the yellow fever mosquito Aedes aegypti is involved, which is well adapted to urban centres and can also transmit other diseases including Dengue and Chikungunya.

Personal prevention of yellow fever includes vaccination as well as avoidance of mosquito bites in areas where yellow fever is endemic.

Besides vaccination, control of the yellow fever mosquito Aedes aegypti is of major importance, especially because the same mosquito can also transmit dengue fever and Chikungunya disease.

* The Asian tiger mosquito, an invasive species, is first found in Houston, Texas.

The word mosquito ( formed by mosca and diminutive ito ) is from the Spanish for " little fly ".

As seen in its lateral aspect the mosquito pupa is comma-shaped.

Adults of the yellow fever mosquito Aedes aegypti, a typical member of the subfamily Culicinae, the male is on the left, and females are on the right.

The abdomen is specialized for food digestion and egg development ; the abdomen of a mosquito can hold three times its own weight in blood.

Going back over this ground and analyzing the composition of forces which have created the present scene is one of the tasks undertaken by the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, in Santa Barbara.

The most articulate Republicans are those who, in their desire to get back at Mr. Kennedy, already have created the image of a Republican leadership which is reluctant to assist the distressed and the unemployed, and which is even more unwilling to help old people who need medical care.

In following this general principle, Mason provides the observer with a natural eye progression from foreground to background, and the illusion of depth is instantly created.

A number of unique medical problems might be created when man is exposed to an infectious agent through the respiratory route rather than by natural portal of entry.

Proceeding from Parry's conclusions and adopting one of his schemata, Francis P. Magoun, Jr., argues that Beowulf likewise was created from a legacy of oral formulas inherited and extended by bards of successive generations, and the thesis is striking and compelling.

Folklore is individually created art that a homogeneous group of people preserve, vary and recreate through oral transmission.

Almost everything about the movies that is peculiarly of the movies derives from a tension created and maintained between narrative time and film time.

An equally tenable thesis is that the dearth of new thought was created by the Senate's own penchant for crucifying anyone whose ideas seem unorthodox to the next generation.

You still have your paper hat and you're wearing it, but then, it is an extraordinary paper hat and, in addition to anything else you may be, you are also the sculptor who created that most peculiar dame out in the back yard.

`` As we look to the $800 billion economy that is predicted for 1970 and the increase of about 40% in consumer expenditures that will be required to reach that goal, management can well be restless about how this tremendous volume and number of new products will be created and marketed '', Peterson said.

Existence is created and willed by God and is not the consequence of a pre-existent rebellion or of a cosmic descent from eternity into history.

Historical existence is a created good.

The biblical symbol for this affirmation is expressed in the words: `` So God created man in his own image ; ;

Since the organization was created thirteen years ago, it is obvious that this is not the original company ; ;

He supports the steady-state theory which holds that matter is continually being created in space.

The only addition to the Oscar since it was created is a minor streamlining of the base.

Apollo is said to be filled with grief: out of Hyacinthus ' blood, Apollo created a flower named after him as a memorial to his death, and his tears stained the flower petals with άί άί, meaning alas.

In classical Greece the emphasis is not given to the illusive imaginative reality represented by the ideal forms, but to the analogies and the interaction of the members in the whole, a method created by Polykleitos.

It is considered that he created also the New York kouros, which is the oldest fully preserved statue of Kouros type, and seems to be the incarnation of the god himself.

It contains no detergents but is created by whipping up proteins and lectins secreted by the female.

Assistive technology is the array of new devices created to enable sports enthusiasts who have disabilities to play.