The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-04-10
FIXES AND uosoUIToUs.
Only the Females OF the Latter insect
Sting.

Only the Females OF the Latter insect
Sting.
Driving rain did not prevent a large
attendance yesterday at Prof. BicK.
mole's lecture to the public school
teachers on flies aud mosquitoes in the
American Museum OF Natural History.
For an hour and half the audience
paid the closest attention to tho pro.
fessors interesting and graphic talk.
ana the pictures That no was jlustru.
ing ON Tue screen. Tho professor said
that we typical insect leg WAS not COM
posed of an indefinite number of Joints.
but usually Of two short joints aud the
temur, tibia and arm. A number of
ules were projected ON the big Screen
the roObei fly attacked other insects ON
the wing as a hawk would attack "A
pigeon, tearing them 60 pieces and
sucking out the juices of the unfOrtun-
alto victims. Tho luug-legqed Nv
known as the mosquito got lis name
rom Spanish word meaning Httle Nv.
The female laid a series OF euRs, long
pointed like rifle cdrlidges, and placed
parallel TO each other.
An audible smile went around the Ice
ture room when the professor calmly
b'0il Wv llat 10 WAS Only rue lem a 10
mosquito that WAS addicted 20 biting,
and ne suggested that Ia seemed tnst ali
the mosquitoes were Of that gender, The
males quietly Kept alOof on swampy
are -, while the females won't out aud
preyed ON any unfortunate Vertehrm
they could hni. Tho mosquitoes mode
corporations WAS 90 drive into her vic.
tim horny maXilie, making q long
ragged blade. Drawn through the skin,
the two parts together made sort OF
tube. Evidently a poisonous fluid WIS
lett In the skin after the punctur0 was
made, because - puuCture by clean,
sharp stepl would not produce tho SWELL
ing sOmoti mes quite serious, caused by
"A mosquitoes bite. I'M some OF the males
the autenuW were beautifully pmmed
by ,Uries uf long, soft, flexible hairs.
"And even 40 In ptsts,' philUsophicaiiy
observed the professor 1--WE lind AZ
anSmoutNtiOu that eNci.es our delightn
IL seemed strange that out iu siberia
many muequitus we're found, but the
birds went north tu nest ON account of
the insect life there, was serious
matter TO travel through the swatms
Of mosquitoes. They rosO uu ia
strata like q Iuist. When an animal
died Ia the summer time the Il es scent.
od the htt.l9 from gftr. Thcy Matched
evgs ON the body, which an-tward
changed appsrently into grains OF
wheat and thOu into porffc, insects.
Flios we're found la various forms from
the level Of the sea TO the tops oithe
highest mountains, aud there were
shout 100000 varieties, Tho house-1y
laid her eggs In damp placos, whore
were found decaying flesh aud sub
stance which tho laryl could nppropn-
IaaH.. d
cav, hut On the contrary removed the
ms'otial that produced deuNy. vhare
WAS pest chat troubled thN OK w 10
buazel around the beast The female
had u lance Ike tune. aud thrusting II
through the skin httcheiis oggs, Tho
larva deposited was larger than the pa
rent itself
How docs the nv dy2 asked the pro
fessor, This was NOT easy 10 make our.
| While the wing wGs 500 comparative y
narrow, 1t made up Tor 10 IN lateral mo-
ton. Tho wiuws did not beat unck q a
forth In ono plane, but made, as 10
wore "a figures The wings of nv Vi
hrated $50 times second, which wont
TO show H. muscular power. ! Z caught
fast % nv would keep huz8lng '0r a
/ long time before 10 stopped To resi-, wi p
| this S-like movement. The cl os OF O llY
l NNN kNtNlNtINhlN NlNNINNt NNN tNAlN y. r.
some distance around. Whom mhgui
! fed, they showed sufies OF iscots
which were he lenses These facets
combined produced sight A hy OF se-
/ fiOus importance was the tsotse fly,
4 which, however was confined 10 a nm-
| tied area. To pass through a swarm Of
/ them was deadly 10 horses aud oNOn,
| hut not 10 sucking calves, They did
not etitot mankind. Livingstone, the
explorer, spoke of one occasion when
/ Il was certain that only % or 80 of those
! flies appeared, and yet they caused the
death or y large number of cattle. The
effect OF their bites ON the boasts would
| be, first, loss OF appetite and fur, aud
then death from insnition. The south.
ern and central portions OF Africa would
be quite accessible were II not Tor this
pest. IL was a question how these In.
sects could be destroyed New York
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