This image depicted a female Aedes aegypti mosquito as she was completing the activity of obtaining a blood-meal from a human host through the fascicle of her feeding organ known as the proboscis. Note the droplet of host blood remaining on the tip of her proboscis after she抎 extracted the feeding organ from the skin surface. In this case, what would normally be an unsuspecting host was actually the CDC抯 biomedical photographer抯 own hand, which he抎 offered to the hungry mosquito so that she抎 alight, and be photographed while feeding. As it filled with blood, the abdomen became distended, stretching the exterior exoskeletal surface, thereby, causing it to become transparent, allowing the collecting blood to become visible as an enlarging intra-abdominal red mass.