The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-03-24
SHE SINGS AND STINGS.
ms nm FEMALE MOSQUITO THAI
nor mr. MISCHIEF,

Aud She Raises n Family of n Million In ?
single summer Prof. L.. -. Howardb
Bug Expert. Tells Flushing wom-4
Keform-rs About the suburban Pesv
Tho women cont osing the Local Reforr4
Con OF the food Citizenship League
Flushing in solemn ronclave assembled. n
Gently decided to bring to Flushing Prof. l.
Howard, head Of the chronological DepnrS
ment Of the Smithsonian Institution at WasH
ington, IA they hal heard that no was tho mo4
scientific mosquito lill"r In the land. Pm
How ard went to Flushing yesterday. He maX
an exhaustive lnNpstlghtlUn OF tho county
surrounding the wi and last night In sunny
side Chapel reported the rcsu'tut his iuvcstig4
rion to one of the largest audiences ever know
ia Flushing.
Il do not wish to seem 20 bo ungallant to ~
lady patrons who are tho cause Of my appesr
nnce here Tonight" began Prof. ~Ilowarh
but truth demands thai the fact be- know
that the female mosquito is the one that dOv
the biting. and l., therefore. the cause OF ~
our troubles, | fist turned my attentiot
toward her destruction about six Years ag9
when | was spending the summer y
my cottage at the Aiirundacks. l dom
know how the mosquitoes got thera.
whether they came W. On the cars from
New York or were blown there by the strong
winds, but the TACT remains. that We Mei?
nearly eaten alive Ov them started to fint
out how To lght them and learned that they
came tor the most part from. - tOpi OF water
near 10y. A. al experiment poured "a lot ot
coal oil over the. water ia I'M, lpnd and We
were not bothered with mosquitoes any more
that summer,
This afternoon went all around the
suburbs Of Flushing 10 discover wha, the out.
look was for the breeding of mosquitoes. l
found "a large numleI OF pools that were" part
%tlruIarly advantageous for TIE development ~
mosquito laryr A great deal can be done I'd
bat 1t Will entail considerable cNors
on your part ana a large rN.
will have to be- drained. Every on" OF ths
Others will have to he covered regularly with
kerosene Or crude oil The theory that lermnn-
gauate W potash Will xii mosquitoes IL erro.
neous. II has often been said that a handIu!
Of this substance thrown into a trn-acrr pond
will kin the mosIultoes. This may he 80, buy
To Eill the larVa IN a lalf-arr" pond you would
have to dunn IN about ten wagon loads OF per-
mauginatc, and you would have to do thus
every two days.
The salt marshes caused by the overflow
Of the tides ar" not good breeding grounds.
except in stagnant pools that the tide reaches
only In the early SPRING and the late fall. Tho
Casino Ice pond has been reported to me as y
fruitful source Of breeding, but doubt this, ad
! believe the fish IN that pond would destroy
most OF the laryp'
~, TOO. have made some investigation" In
terrupted Dan Beard. the artist. and ! never
found any mosquitoes there, but there are
lots of them town in thu meadows
Il don't know anything about the meadows
said Prof toward. "and cant imagine why
they should lrOuagato there, unless there are
pools Of water IN your meadows. But want
tO show YOU why Il IA especially urgent t. be-
gin the work OF lighting the mosquitoes early
In the surlng Malaria Il carried around by
mosquitoes. aud there has been a great
deal Of malaria here in Flushing, so |
am told. Now. one femals mosquito Will
lay 100 egg every night These eggs batch
in twenty-iour hours, and the mosquito Is thcn
what call % 'wEg,e.' II takes eight days for
n 'Viggle' to become a MOSQUITO. lt has been
estimated that one female mosquito will be- tho
ancestress OF more than a million others dur
ing the course of q single summer. SO YOU can
see that he carrier you start the more effective
your work will be-"