Dengue fever may occur due to spread by the mosquito Aedes aegypti. We need to know the characteristics of the dengue mosquito is that prevention efforts do not get lodged in our environment and avoid bites.
Dengue fever is a fever which can cause bleeding caused by Dengue virus infection. This should always be aware of dengue fever and the sufferer should immediately get help, because this disease can cause bleeding that causes a decrease in blood pressure and even cause death. Dengue virus can infect humans through the bite of a mosquito called Aedes aegypti.
Recognizing Characteristics of Aedes aegypti Causes of Dengue
Aedes aegypti mosquitoes that transmit the disease Dengue has distinctive physical characteristics, namely:
- Pick the color with striped black and white (piebald white) in the whole body of mosquitoes.
- Having the ability to fly up to a radius of 100 meters from where mosquitoes hatch.
- Female mosquitoes need blood every two days.
- Female mosquitoes suck blood twice: in the morning and afternoon.
- Liked the home environment, building and building.
- Glad perch in dark places and objects hanging in the house.
- Able to survive for 2-3 months with an average sealam 2 weeks.
Aedes aegypti mosquitoes lay eggs with egg characteristics as follows:
- The female mosquito can lay up to 100 eggs.
- Has a black color
- Having an average size of 0.8 mmv
- Hatch after 2 days immersed in water
- If not submerged in water, the eggs can survive the wait for water for 6 months.
Once the mosquito eggs hatch, the larvae will form or wiggler with the following characteristics:
- Having an average size of 0.5 s / d 1 cm
- Having the ability to move the motion that is agile and active in the clean water from the bottom up to the surface to take a breath of air and then back again to the base.
- At rest or break, flick will be seen perpendicular to the surface of the water.
- After the age of 6-8 days, the larvae will turn into pupae of mosquitoes.
Aedes aegypti pupae has features as below:
- Has a body shape like a comma.
- Cocoon moved slowly in the water, therefore, more often located on the surface of the water.
- After the age of 1-2 days, the pupae will turn into adult mosquitoes ready to infect humans who are in the vicinity.