Discovered mosquitoes as big as damselflies in Quang Binh

Mr. N., who discovered the mosquito, said: On the morning of September 8, while drinking coffee on Tran Nhan Tong street, he heard a scratching sound from afar Unexpectedly, he saw a flying animal landing on his shirt.

Thinking it was a bee, he panicked and vigorously brushed the animal off, which fell to the floor At first, he thought it was a damselfly, but looking closely, it didn’t look like a mosquito.

Mr. N. caught this animal and called everyone to come see it. Everyone confirms that it looks a lot like a mosquito. As noted by reporter Tien Phong, this animal is shaped like an enlarged brown-black mosquito with a full blood-sucking nozzle, body and wings, and its leg span is about 10cm wide.

Mr. Lai Van Hai, Director of Dong Hoi City Preventive Medicine Center, said that through preliminary examination at the laboratory and comparison with long-collected mosquito samples, it can be confirmed that this is the case. is an individual mosquito. But it cannot be confirmed what type of mosquito it is because experts at his center have never seen this specimen.

Mr. Hai added that he is carry out procedures to transfer this specimen for examination.

According to Hoang Nam

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