Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Aedes taeniorhynchus is an ectoparasite of waved albatrosses. Adult mosquitoes feed on a combination diet of blood and sugar, with the optimal diet consisting of sugar for males and both blood and sugar for females. [5] Most Ae. taeniorhynchus rely on mammals and birds for blood meals, especially depending on bovine, rabbits, and armadillos. [37]
Main character in a popular series of German children's novels, later adapted into films and TV animated series. Mr. Mosquito Mosquito: Ricky Ricotta's Mighty Robot vs. the Mutant Mosquitos from Mercury: Dav Pilkey: The main antagonist of the book. He hates living on Mercury because the extreme temperatures ruin his everyday activities.
Aedes mosquitoes are known to carry a variety of pathogens, including dengue, Zika, and chikungunya viruses. Many of these species are also known to bite humans and can transmit diseases through their bites. The subgenera within Aedes include Stegomyia, Ochlerotatus, Finlaya, and Diceromyia.
Ochlerotatus is a genus of mosquito.Until 2000, it was ranked as a subgenus of Aedes but was reclassified as a distinct genus based on taxonomic studies. [1] This change resulted in the renaming of many subgenus species, and revisions of related taxa in the Aedini tribe are ongoing.
The SFPA also bestows the Dwarf Stars Award for short poem (up to ten lines). [26] Since the 1980s [23] the Rhysling-winning poems are included in the Nebula Awards anthology published by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, [27] along with (since 2008) the Dwarf Stars winning poems. [28]
Two of the more famous science fiction authors who have also written science fiction haiku are Joe Haldeman and Thomas M. Disch. The author Paul O. Williams , who has written a series of science fiction books as well as books of regular haiku and senryū , has combined both interests with some published science fiction haiku.
Wyndham's first published sf story, "Worlds to Barter", was published in the May 1931 issue of Wonder Stories, under his pen name John Beynon Harris. Wyndham/Harris as pictured in the May 1931 Wonder Stories Wyndham's second story, "The Lost Machine", was cover-featured on the April 1932 issue of Amazing Stories, also under his Harris pen name Wyndham's 1934 novelette "The Moon Devils" was the ...
To Sail Beyond the Sunset is a science fiction novel by American writer Robert A. Heinlein, published in 1987. It was the last novel published before his death in 1988. The title is taken from the poem "Ulysses", by Alfred Tennyson. The stanza of which it is a part, quoted by a character in the novel, is as follows: