The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1903-10-13
THE NEWLY DISCOVERED
MOSQUITO DESTROYER
IT is A HAIR-LIIE WORM WHICH IN ONE STAGE OF IT'S
EXISTENCE SEEKS THE LARVAE OF MOSQUITOES
AND ENTERS THE ABDOMINAL CAVITY CAUSING
THE DEATH OF ITS HOST.

has may perhaps ranked greatest single
achievement of the United States Government scientists 1t little
wormhe special enemy of the dreaded singing Northumberland
evidently provided express purpose keeping down
its numbers So fatal in its attack that the opinion of has
only be properly encouraged by simple and order
wipe out the winged scourge.
Thus everything the line OF experiment has turned
satisfactorily where all conditions have been favorable for the breeding
o Agamomems mosquito destroyer But there much
for the Government they busy pursuing their
study Of the little parasite
The welknown every
enemy assumed apply the little Agamomem The fact that
and in ponds there varying quantities of the
little indicates their abundance dependent upon
cumsnces of weather. temperature food the
abundance lack of whatever be found natures
the The abors of the scientists directed toward
searches and inquiries all these points. 7'7
Just discovered that this parasite enemy
the mosquito the any find
some minute creature winch the natural ana aa enemy OF the mos
quito destroyer The this creature is identified the
must start and study him with mnues to find how he can
be suppressed Here again. as IN the case OF the mosquito his enemy
must be found and encouraged breed abundanty possible
This then logically entails the searching for the of the enemy
enemy enemy mosquito with suppreng
him-"and ad infnitum, in the words Of the poet
1t that the work of the Government Bureau by no
means ends with the discovery OF Agamomerms 1t but the starting
point of most interesting and minute series OF studies and examna-
of low life in the mud bottoms and waters OF ponds MOI
must expected instantly announcement
enemy the mosquito has been identified will the sudden end
of the curious little fungus which turned be the deadly
enemy the grasshopper before the Government Bureau
ogy found itself able actually ship thousands Of bottles of these lit
tie germs the farmers throughout the West be spnked about
the grasshPp infected territories But when the crusade began
the end of the grasshopper had come forever.
The mosquito problem has assumed vastly increased Importance
within the last half dozen the discovery that mosquitoes
the sole by which malaria and yellow fever conveyed
On this investigators the world have been
making minute and elaborate microscopic studies of the inside
works of these insects and ncideny their researches they have
parasitic animals that live within the body the
singing gnamost of them tiny worms quite harmless human
beings.
One worms discovered by Warden Stiles
mosquito destroyer spends part life while
not fully deveo ped in the abdominal cavity the insects and
while thus sheltered works such havoc with the physical economy
its unwilling host that the latter becomes sick and eventually dies
Here then as would appear is found the most important natural
enemy OF the mosquito AS such it is necessarily be regarded
friend mankind and too much cannot be done in the cult
waiting it.
to be taken in hand and propagaed with view to utilizing its
ges for the wholesale destruction OF mosquitoes 1t w be
been done already by the Government Colorado and other Of
the West where nchbugs and grashoppe have been nocuted
agency employed be plant Gall fungi pant
mahumble it but scientific testimony has any value,
willing and most efficient worker in great cause
DR. Stiles it should be explained hemnhologst-
that the study OF worms is an important part OF his business He
all animal parasites and find about their habits So
right his make the remarkable discovery here described and
hreadhke $50 he describes it, half inch long, which
looks like bit of hoehair than anything else and which APP
depend the mosquito for home during the period
of its existence though its breeding is accomplished outside the
mud of the bottom of pond swamp
The worm development leaves the
body Of the insect and bures itself the soft mud the bottom of the
pend swamp where coils itself into knot together with
longing the group have this curious habit from which
genus takes the Gordus-eng
By-andby the mosquito deroyer-he female is to ay-as
which have the form OF soft white breaks
into egmen and presently the tiny young ones resembling delicate
threads. Matched. ~ .
Coming out in the the baby proceeds
mosquito larva stagnant pond or swamp large niBer Of
immature mosquitoes commonly called wrgglers to- be-
swimming about and before long the destroyer tackles Of them
entering its body making itself comfortable abdominal cav
Feeding the vital fluids of the insect big strong
the expense the latter and pretty the unfortunate keee be-
gins scken The malady of course is ncurab while
Mr. Cluex dies miSeraby
Pursuing his mcroscOpa study Professor Stiles
interesting discovery that the newyhached which only
twentieth inch long,