El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-06-01

gotten In pantry, in the water pan of
letter press, in a elogged sink partly
tllled with water from a dripping fau-
Get and in fire buckets hanging along
the hail Of a hotel
AS might be exptced from its do
nestle habits, the rain-barrel mosquito
IS not much Of a traveller 1t rarely
goes far from the place where it was
Aatehed-oeing in this respect Of an
Inclination exactly contrary TO the salt
marsh mosquitoes, whose migratory
sWarms pass inland over such great
distances In the heat of the middle
and late summer, when their Develop
ment is very rapid, there commonly
appears a brood or two OF understood,
very active, and vicious individuals
which actually force the window and
door screens, making their way
through the meshes-mOre easily
II.hrough wire than through cotton or
men net, because the latter is fuzzy
and on that account affords addition
al obstruction to their passage.
Buy small Mesh Net.
at is always worth while. by the
way when buying mosquito net, &c
PICK out the smallest mesh 0btainable.
1t varies a good deal. and often il
is too large A European Investigator,
DR. Arnold, made a rather interesting
experiment in this line by covering 3
number Of iidless pill boxes with mos
quito net OF Is many different brands.
In each box he imprisoned two or three
mosquitoes. Then, when he went to
bed, ne put them on a chair by the side
of his cOuch-the idea being TO initiate
the conditions under which mosquitoes
and sleeping person are separated by
a net AS result some of the pill
boxes were found empty in the morn
ing, and Dr. Arnold had several bites.
'Since the dangerous character OF
some mosquitoes has come to be
known, manufacturers have put on the
market portable 'eanopies' which. be-
ing folded up when not in use. occupy
hardly more space than a fishing rod
Also. If one wishes, he may purchase
a mOsquito-proof hOuse=most suitable
for traveller in malarious countries
which. when unfOlded. affords room
enough for occupancy by two persons.
we are not accustomed to regard
the house mosquito as anything worse
than an annoyance; yet in the tropics
IL IS tire proved carrier and distribu-
tor Of that dread disease elephantiasis
this malady being attributable to
minute worm which the insect, in
tected by biting a sufferer from the
complaint, Introduces into the blood OF
healthy person incidentally to a
puncture with its beak.
I'm rural and suburban districts one
often finds the sources OF mosquito
supply at the very doors of dwelling
houses, and usually unsupported. An
experienced observer, DR.. Lugger. once
undertook to count the developing mos
quitoes in an ordinary rain barrel On
July the water ia the barrel was
filtered, and found TO contain 1888
eggs, Wrigglers and pupae. Sixteen
days later, 1910 additional ones We're
present. If il be supposed that half
Of these developed into female NOS
quitOes, each OF which laid 400 eggs,
and that u generations bred in the
course or the summer, fl will easily be
seen how large neighborhood might
be well supplied with the pests from
a single neglected rainwater barrel
Bred I'm Pitcher Plants.
There are mosquitoes which breed
In pitcher plants. / know Of a case
where a considerable number OF pitch
ers' of such plants, found filled with
solid ice i'm winter. were thawed out
and yielded two bottles OF very lively
wrigglers. The latter were imbedded
in the ice. so that they could be seen