The Asian tiger mosquito of Sabah
Identification, behaviour and disease transmission — and how to tell a male from a female. The male has feathery antennae, feeds on plant nectar, and does not bite.
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The true flies and mosquitoes of Sabah and Sarawak — order Diptera.
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The true flies and mosquitoes — order Diptera. One pair of working wings, with the hind pair reduced to a pair of tiny balancing organs called halteres. This is the one wing-count folder that maps almost exactly onto a single order.
Identification, behaviour and disease transmission — and how to tell a male from a female. The male has feathery antennae, feeds on plant nectar, and does not bite.
Flies with a date and a place, each on its own record page. All of them are listed in Flies of Borneo.
The families recorded on this site, each in its own Family_ folder, with genus folders where the genus is known.
Photograph grids for comparing flies side by side — the fastest way to narrow down what you have.
Insects of Borneo — the main index, with the groups that span the wing-count key: true bugs, stick insects and ants.