Stamp: Malaria Eradication Campaign and Mosquito (Canal Zone 1962)
Malaria Eradication Campaign and Mosquito (Canal Zone 1962)
24 September (Canal Zone ) within release Malaria Eradication Campaign goes into circulation Stamp Malaria Eradication Campaign and Mosquito face value 7 United States cent
| Stamp Malaria Eradication Campaign and Mosquito in catalogues | |
|---|---|
| Michel: | Mi: US-CZ 150 |
| Stamp Number: | Sn: US-CZ C33 |
| Yvert et Tellier: | Yt: US-CZ PA32 |
Stamp is square format.
Stamp Malaria Eradication Campaign and Mosquito it reflects the thematic directions:
Mosquitoes, the Culicidae, are a family of small flies consisting of 3,600 species. The word mosquito (formed by mosca and diminutive -ito) is Spanish and Portuguese for little fly. Mosquitoes have a slender segmented body, one pair of wings, three pairs of long hair-like legs, and specialized, highly elongated, piercing-sucking mouthparts. All mosquitoes drink nectar from flowers; females of some species have in addition adapted to drink blood. The group diversified during the Cretaceous period. Evolutionary biologists view mosquitoes as micropredators, small animals that parasitise larger ones by drinking their blood without immediately killing them. Medical parasitologists view mosquitoes instead as vectors of disease, carrying protozoan parasites or bacterial or viral pathogens from one host to another.
