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It's lunchtime at the Salt Lake City Mosquito Abatement District and a colony of sabethes cyaneus - also known as the paddle-legged beauty for its feathery appendages and iridescent coloring - find their way to Ella Branham.
"They're not very aggressive and they're kind of picky eaters," said Branham, a technician, as she exhaled into a glass tank to attract the insects to the carbon dioxide in her breath. "So I'll be feeding them with my arm."
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