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Image: Dipping for mosquitoes


Mosquitoes spend their larval, or immature, stages in water. Here an entomologist is checking for mosquito larvae with a long-handled "dipper."
Picture of an entomologist checking for mosquito larvae with a long-handled "dipper"

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