Snow Mosquito
Other Name(s): Mosquito
Characteristics: The Snow Mosquito is a special breed of mosquito commonly limited to northern portions of the United States. The Snow Mosquito differs from regular summertime mosquitoes in ways that include staying active during the winter months when their counterparts remain dormant.
Snow Mosquitos are generally 5mm to 6mm in length and are found with scaly-type bodies. These scales usually appear a brown or black and are disrupted by another set of scales that are lighter in color, perhaps a white, gray or yellow. These mosquitoes prefer to operate in forested areas and, like their counterparts, utilize open pools of water (in this case, melting snow) to distribute their eggs.
Males typically forage for plants and suck out their juices whereas the female is the one to feed off of the blood of mammals and birds. Larvae will take on algae as their diet and hatch in the springtime and develop in the nearby water supplies until adulthood.
North American reach includes (may not be limited to): Maine, Delaware, New Jersey, Rhode Island, New York, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, Vermont, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maryland, Ohio, West Virginia, Indiana, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, Minnesota, Iowa, North Dakota, Nebraska, South Dakota, Wyoming, Montana, Washington, Oregon, Idaho
Category: Fly
Common Name: Snow Mosquito
Scientific Name: (Aedes communis)
 Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Culicidae
Genus: Aedes
Species: communis
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