And finally, we have our fruit fly and all the problems that these pests can cause in your home or office. The scary thing is that within 60 hours of coming out of its shell, the females are able to lay up to 500 eggs. And within another 48 hours, those 500 eggs will become fruit flies.
Malaria typically is found in warmer regions of the world -- in tropical and subtropical countries. Higher temperatures allow the Anopheles mosquito to thrive. Malaria parasites, which grow and develop inside the mosquito, need warmth to complete their growth before they are mature enough to be transmitted to humans.
The page in Ross' notebook where he recorded the pigmented bodies in mosquitoes that he later identified as malaria parasites. Ross made his first important step in May 1895 when he observed the early stages of malarial parasite inside a mosquito stomach.