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| License | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain/ |
| Rating | 3 |
| Vetted | Trusted |
| Description | This female Anopheles freeborni is taking a blood meal from a human host by pumping the ingested blood through her labrum, which is visible here as a thin red, needle-like structure between the mosquitos head and the hosts skin. Created: 2004 |
| Original URL | http://phil.cdc.gov/PHIL_Images/20050125/bca4ecfee1f24b7e975ef929e8bef032/6764_lores.jpg |
| photographer | James Gathany |
| provider | Public Health Image Library |
