It's always flies I need help identifying

[urbpan]

This dead one I'm 99 percent sure is an Aedes mosquito, the genus that includes Asian tiger mosquitoes and yellow fever mosquitoes, and is notorious for biting in daylight hours and flying for miles to do so.  I think they also lay eggs in dry places that will be wet, and the eggs hatch when it rains.  It's the groovy black and white pattern that makes me think so.

But the live one I'm holding in the first picture is indistinct to me, since I don't know what to look for.  Any help, entomologists?

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[wirrrn.livejournal.com]

It's a Mosquito for sure, but what type genus I couldn't tell you. I know West Aussie Mozzies, but not your Yank ones *g*.

:returning after looking through Dipteran books: Some kind of Anopheles? The head looks similar to them...