Nurturer

Here’s a fine-grained view, head-on, of a female mosquito. Her multiple eyes surround the stalks at the bases of the antennae, which themselves seem like grotesque eyes, almost cartoon-like. What an image! See her legs? Some might call this Ugly Beauty. I think we’re stuck with the perception of Ugly, because she is just too unlike us to be appealing at all. But forget her, if you can. What a photograph!

Clouds Hill Imaging

“Male mosquitoes have no interest in blood, while females depend on protein-rich hemoglobin to nourish their eggs. A mosquito's proboscis appears spike-solid, but it's actually a sheath of separate tools—cutting blades and a feeding tube powered by two tiny pumps. She drills through the epidermis, then through a thin layer of fat, then into the network of blood-filled micro-capillaries. She starts to drink.” (National Geographic)