Mosquito life cycle (Aedes aegypti)
- Science
- Class 6
- 3D model
- English · Hindi
Mosquito life cycle (Aedes aegypti): a 3D model for Class 6 Science, covering A mosquito goes through complete metamorphosis: egg, larva, pupa, adult, always in that order, Aedes eggs are laid one at a time on the damp wall of a container just above the waterline, not as a floating raft, Aedes eggs can survive drying for months and hatch when rising water covers them…, The larva (wriggler) lives in water, eats tiny food particles swept in by its mouth brushes and breathes air through a…, The larva grows through four stages (instars), shedding its skin each time; the scanned larva is the fourth, last stage.
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Also called
mosquito life cycle · life cycle of a mosquito · Aedes aegypti · Aedes mosquito · dengue mosquito · yellow fever mosquito · machhar · मच्छर · मच्छर का जीवन चक्र · wriggler · tumbler · mosquito larva · mosquito pupa · egg larva pupa adult · complete metamorphosis · mosquito breeding
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About this model
A GLB file of about 881 KB, shown in Lably's 3D viewer and, on a phone, placed in your room with AR. Credit: Aedes aegypti fourth-instar larva micro-CT mesh: De Borre, De Massia, Boone, Muller, Thielens, Zenodo record 13881907, CC BY 4.0. Aedes aegypti adult female mesh: De Borre et al. 2021, PLOS Computational Biology 17(10): e1009460 (supplement S2), CC BY 4.0. Both decimated, re-oriented, scaled and recoloured; the larva was given a 6-joint rig. Bowl: Kenney Food Kit, CC0, cut away, enlarged and recoloured. Water, eggs, first-stage larvae, mouth brushes, pupa, wings, halteres and all animation newly made for Lably. | CC BY 4.0 (contains two CC BY 4.0 research meshes; the container is CC0; everything else is original for Lably and shared under CC BY 4.0)
