According to legend, Saint Patrick used a shamrock to explain God. This small green plant that looks like a clover, has three leaves on it. The wearing of the green' on Saint Patrick's day is a reminder of all the green countryside of Ireland. In 1883 the 20 story Gold Medel Flour Plant in downtown Minneapolis exploded and killed 13 people. Amend, Discuss, Correct Mosquitoes are the common vector for malaria, encephalitis, yellow fever and dengue fever.
Mosquitoes live mostly on nectar and rotting plant material.
The female bites humans and many other animals including frogs and snakes to provide additional nutrition for her eggs. Amend, Discuss, Correct Visitors to Columbia should be careful what they drink, warn authorities. Criminals have taken to slipping 'burundanga' into the cocktails of unsuspecting businessmen. Burundanga is obtained from a local plant of the nightshade family called borracherra. When refined it yields scopolamine.