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Giant mosquito discovered in central Vietnam

A man accidentally discovered a mosquito that is as big as a damselfly in a cafe in the city of Dong Hoi, Quang Binh province, on Monday.

 

Giant mosquito

 

The man who found the giant mosquito said, on the morning of September 9, while sitting in a coffee shop on Tran Nhan Tong Road, he heard a buzzing sound from a distance and saw a creature perched on his shirt.

Thinking that it was a bee, the man flicked off the creature from his shirt and it fell to the ground. At the first look, he thought it was a damselfly but then he saw that it was shaped like a mosquito.

The man called to others to check the creature and all of them agreed that it was a mosquito; its legs were about 10 cm long.

Mr. Lai Van Hai, Director of the Center for Preventive Medicine of Dong Hoi City, said through a preliminary examination and compared with mosquito specimens, he could confirm that it was a mosquito but he was not sure of the species because experts at the center had never seen it before.

Hai said he was planning to transfer the sample to a laboratory.

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