Another beauty is Aedes vexans, a flood-plain dweller with glowing, emerald-green eyes _ and thousands of lenses.
However, another type of mosquito known to carry the West Nile virus, the Aedes vexans, is also active during the day, she said.
The nation's most common mosquito pest, appropriately named Aedes vexans, is just a nuisance and not a disease vector, Moon noted while he and his visitor strolled through a wooded area on the University of Minnesota's St . Paul campus.