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Press photos available for download

These images are approx. 2MB JPEGs.
Click on the link beside each image for a full sized version.

These images are available free but please credit all photos to Hugh Sturrock. To see Hugh's award winning photograph of a mosquito in flight (Wellcome Trust Biomedial Image Award 2006) click here.

If you have problems downloading any of these images contact:
Andrew Read
Brian Chan

Images:

Fungus-killed mosquito held in tweezers (1.2MB.)
Technical: Mosquitoes = Anopheles stephensi, dead for 48 hours with sporulating fungus = Beauveria bassiana.

 

 

 

 

Killing blood-fed moquitoes with a fungus
Top: freshly fed Anopheles, Middle: mosquito killed by fungus 12 hours earlier, Bottom: mosquito killed by fungus 24 hours.
Technical: Mosquitoes = Anopheles stephensi; fungus = Beauveria bassiana , sporulating.

 

 

Killing blood-fed moquitoes with a fungus (2.1MB.)

 

Killing blood-fed moquitoes with a fungus
Top: freshly fed Anopheles, Middle: mosquito killed by fungus 24 hours earlier, Bottom: mosquito killed by fungus 48 hours.
Technical: Mosquitoes = Anopheles stephensi; fungus = Beauveria bassiana, sporulating.

 

 

Killing blood-fed moquitoes with a fungus (2.2MB.)