The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-08-22
FACTS ABoJOsQUITOEs.
The Insect Frone chronological
PointNicW.
Trom Ia spfAld Renubllean.

Ahc insect ErOne acknowledgement
PointNiew.
From the Spfeld Republican. an.
Some benevolent clined philosophers
have attempted % ole the people with
some ingenious ties recently to the |
effect that mosquitoes are healthful, |
but DR., George DOCK of Grant street
in this city. who, his laboratory up
on State street. making discoveries
which are earning him almost an in
ternatonal reputa as an authority in |
entomology. says this consoling phase |
of the subject is far from being es-
tablished. The nito simply is here, |
and we must make best of It. And the |
cause of his appe;ce in such numbers |
is to be found iatural phenomena, |
namely, the eXcesrainfan.
The mosquito brin the water. When |
the female is aboo lay her eggs she |
chooses a stagnaool and shapes the |
batch of eggs so tthey float about on |
top. After a feWys a little hsh-like !
animal energies fIthe bottom of each |
esq and becomes, he language of the |
sChoolboy, a "wric" Every one who
has looked into a tub on hot July
day has seen thettle creatures wrig-
Cling themselves tlgh the water. These
are the larvae. II approaches the tub
quietly he can sthom resting az the
top. seemingly hing head downward
from the surface the water. While
in this position [ are breathing, for
the animal must We air as wen as
water.
The mosquito r6ns in this state for
several days. whe becomes pupa,
and few days the skin OF the pupa
is Seen to split a the back ana the
winged mosquito fully works his way
out and stations self on his outSrown
skin, using II as raft while he dries
himself and gets ength for his flight.
His slender body)n dries Off and he
spreads his wingsd starts off on his
mission of mischijThus the heavy rain
of this season, byalSing little pools ev-
eryWhcre about { country, has taClh-
tated the propaein OF the species-for
the female has uoien obliged to HE her
self off to some Ely pond, as In past
summers, but ha9und plenty of pools
right here near acme. These aruhcial
pools, moreover, e had the advantage
of being free frothe fishes and other
inhabitants of porwhich prey upon the
''WTigglers." Thu the mosquito has
found things com his way this sum
mer with a Veng ce, and he Is begin
ming to arrive in mbers that threaten
the extinction Of human race before
the season is o.er
IL is only In thest few years that we
have known just W the mosquito gets
in his bill and sue the blood. Scientists
had a general debut it was not uatil
Or, Dimmock bel his investigations
that the mosquito modus operandi has
become fully kno} Mir. Dimmock was
at Leipslc. Germa al the time, work
ing for his Pm. Degree, his subject be-
ing the mouthpieC of insects Applying
his powerful micrOpe 10 the bill of the
mosquito. he dlscded 1t to be composed
of six distinct proi, with shear around
the whole. Whethe insect begins TO
work he pulls thiheaf back under him,
which leaves the ong5 free 10 operate.
OF these prongs FIRST two are notrhed
like a saw and a used to pull the rest
of the tools in Qerwise the MOSQUITO,
being such a ligheight and not being
able 20 hang on tn his feet If he at
tempted to thrust bill in by main force
would simply pry mself off into the air.
But by inserting ese two hooks alter
nately he actuallyllls his beak inside ms
victims flesh tt next two prongs are
Joined together to AXE "a chisel, and serve
to dig the hole otwider. The next, the
fifth prong, IS tubir, and carries the poi
son from the poisf duct back in the mos
quitos' head don into the flesh. THIS
makes the blood his victim thinner
and thus moro eE for him TO suck up
The last prong Is largest of all ana Il
meant to reap In harvest for which al
the other work islerely preliminary foi
it Is "A tube thro,h which the Insec'
sucks in the bio, of his sacrifice. Oh
course, an these rongs are exceedingly
minute. MOI onlyle naked eye, but mos
microscopes fail show their separate
existence. and il ~ only when DR.. Dim
mock had apple his strongest micro
scope to some GRO sections that he made
the discovery.
just why the Tfsquito bites people Il
not yet known. lis not TO furnish hin
food. for IL is an itablished fast that
mosquito after gogug himself with hu
man blood. dies with few hours; where
as mosquitoes thatav never tasted BLOC
have been known live very comfortabl!
even through thc ntire winter and int
the next season. ne adult mosquito doe
not need food. Dung his larva stage h
has Stored up enolh nourishment 20 las
him an his life, an it Is his normal stat
to go without foodor the rest Of his eN
istencc. All that 'htneeds j. moist an
adult mosquitoes bein known 70 pass tn
winter In damp celat living on nothini
but the moisture. IT. fact that II Is es
tlmated that only on out Of 1000 eve
tastes human blood alo proves that II ]
not necessary why persists in tortur
ing mankind, therefor has not yet bee
found out. and scienuls can only swea
softly with the rest Of mankind ana max
the general statement cat the mosquito
born with a yltiated Dpette for huma
gore-an appetite that auses the death o
the indulger, ana Is this precisely parable
to the drunkard's thirs for drink. Is no
here, too II has beenasked, a field 70
some OF our little temperance bands to d
humane work?
Theories have been .dvanced 10 sho'
that the bite OF the mouultO IS beneficial
One Of the most interoting Of these Ia
been advanced within tip last few months
and = to the effect tat the insect !
biting "A person, leaves inside Of the fesi
n germ which inOcuhtss tho persO
against the germs Of mahria. The fac
that the mosquito is nOA abundant )
malaria regions is brOugntup 70 supper
this theory, ana also the Nact that IA
itching that follows the lite OF one q
the insects Is very similar 10 that whic
accompanies the injection OF Fmallpo
germs into the arm in VACCINATION. Tn
same misguided theorist gosa on 10 stat
that the mosquito IN this act IS purel
and does not suck blood q
all lie swells NJ. TO be sure, but th
ie merely the expansion Of the lymphatl