This is either a Common blue Damselfly or an Azure Damselfly – not sure which.
On the 20th of August, 1897, Ronald Ross made an important discovery :-
On 20 August 1897, in Secunderabad, India, Ross had his breakthrough, during the dissection of the stomach tissue of an anopheline mosquito fed four days previously on a malarious patient². He found the malaria parasite, from which he proved the role of Anopheles mosquitoes in the transmission of malaria parasites in humans.
Declaring himself that this date be remembered as World Mosquito Day, his work was soon verified by a colleague, Surgeon-Major John Smyth¹ and Ross wrote a paper which was later published in the British Medical Journal.
Ross had been born in India, of British parents – he was educated in Blighty but returned to India to join the Indian Medical Service. He had worked in Madras and later Bangalore³, and his work on malaria would earn him the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1902.
I think this is an Emerald damselfly (I can hardly tell one species from another)
The pictures of the bugs aren’t mosquitos – they are damselflies – much prettier and much more harmless. Pictures taken in Galway a week ago.
Both pictures taken with a Canon 40D, Sigma 180mm macro lens, Canon 580 II flash with ringflash attachment.
¹ No relation
²Feeding patients to mosquitos probably wouldn’t be the primary method of investigation today
³ I got plenty of mossy bites when I was in Bangalore earlier this year – I probably should have stayed away from the meat market