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The wikipedia article you linked to says that the adults of that species feed only on nectar and do not suck blood.

• dredmorbius 1y ago
  ... and have a range largely in the south-eastern United States. Which isn't quite where Alaska is located.
  • capitainenemo 1y ago
    Good point. I wonder if they'd heard about huge mosquitoes up north and just looked for first wikipedia article about large mosquitoes. Maybe they were thinking of this one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culiseta_alaskaensis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culiseta_alaskaensis This one had a large size and was a blood sucker, but wrong side of the continent again. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psorophora_ciliata https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psorophora_ciliata
    • HowardStark 1y ago
      Honestly, I was so confident in what I thought I knew (namely evil giant Alaskan mosquitoes) that I didn’t bother to read the article I linked, I just added it for others’ context. Culiseta alaskaensis is probably the source of confusion, and I think a switch-up happened when this was first relayed to me. Looks like the island might be back on, assuming it doesn’t get hot enough to become temperate in the next few years hah.