The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-19
This Banner Mosquito Year.

According 10 guesSers n other
leading statlsticians this is the liveli-
est and most social mosquito year
since the Deiuge. In the summer
following that forty days and forty
nights OF abnormal humidity there
we're many depressions in the earth's
surface. many topless tomato cans,
many discarded shoes and many other
Incidental containers OF water left
when the food subsidized which would
have been ideal i~ncubatcrs and nurs-
cries for mosquitoes had they been
stocked with fortified eggs
But when NOAH took the animals
into his ark be admitted only one pair
Of each sort, a male and a female.
The embarkarion OF this favored happy
family is mentioned in the epic which
run in part:
The an-I-m!les came two by two.
The ELEPHANT and the Kangaroo"
The mosquitoes that marched up
the %gangplank with the elephants.
fieas, rats, lions and others on that
occasion Of safety first when Unbe-
levers danced on the lawn and sang
merrily as the first big drops fell,
You can go to the devil with your
damned Did scow.
II Amt a-going 10 rain long anyhow
these two mosquitoes were the hope
Of this particular branch Of the well
KNOWN, then as now, Culex family.
1t is not recorded that any OF the
ANNA Is, even the rabbits, bred while
in the ark. SO when the solitary
mosqultoess descended from the ark
10 the solid ground Of Mount Ararat
and booked at 4 world OF puddles she
must have realized that. doing her
level best, she could. because of the
lateness OF the season, lay only a few
million eggs in time q make for her.
self and her progeny a showing in any
way commensurate with the unprece-
dented opportunity Incidental to the
Great Deluge.
Naturalists tell US that an indus
tricus female mosquito thinks nothing
OF laying a few million eggs before
coming off her nest. Observation and
experience indicate that all mosqul-
oes are industrious and that nearly
all are females. SO Il is no won Ter
that NoAH's pair Of mosquitoes have
tJne us well as they have up 10 and
including the current seasJn.
Contrary 10 popular belief, the mos
quito Is not an amphlbian. He Is a
creature only of the water during the
period OF his incubation. After that
stage he shuns the WAIVER wagon
While living in water he is commonly
called a wiggler because he wiggleS,
which accounts for the fact that at
10 stage is he 80 designated by the
scientists. They would scorn 10 call
anything what II is commonly called
for 50 obvious a son Soon after
emerging from rhe water the mosquito
takes on wings, very small wings, but,
as the poet has observed:
THE butterfly Is mostly wings,
The frefy's wings are fame.
The skeeter's wings are tiny things,
But he gets there all the same"
That the mosquito was created for
some purpose Is beyond question. Not
long ago the mosquito pundits said
his sting was n prophylactlc and later
1t was asserted that he was a puryeyor
Of deadly Infection, BE this as it may,
he Is a factor IN the social and civic
life OF his time, Many II man and.
not t be ungallant, many a woman
who never would have been known
except as an exemplary member Of
the immediate community has becom.
a parsonage uf countrywide fame
through being chosen president ot
presidentess Of the borough .Antl-Mos,
quito League.
But as a matter OF fact there Is a
serious and scientific angle Of the