Science Answer #1

For those who guessed mosquito larvae to the question posed in the last post, you win a gold star. This site explains it all.

There is some good news to all this. First, examine this picture I took tonight of a mosquito pupae.

Now, consider I pulled this specimen from a glass jar I was incubating in my basement thinking that, instead of mosquitoes, I was harvesting something neat like gold-bearing leprechauns that start life as water-born squirming creepy things. At about 3:00 this afternoon, when I learned that my jar of happiness was teaming with soon-to-be mosquitoes, all I could really think to do was get home and get that jar outside as quickly as possible. Of course, I knew the larvae wasn't going to transform into mosquitoes in one day, but I suspected there were a number of pupae in that jar that could have.

I've done a lot of stupid things in this house over the years. I'm glad I can go at least one more day of my life saying that infecting it with a swarm of mosquitoes is not one of them.