The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1921-01-14
MOSQUITOES

| Madame Anopheles, pronounced Tan
awful easel, yawned and stretched.
| then with characteristic abandon pro
| ceeded to stand on her head rather
unladylike, but Madame Anopheles was
a mosquito and after all that position
was natural to her special family, thus
| differing from her cousins, the Culex's,
! who always stand with their slim
| bodies parallel to the object upon which
they are resting.
| Madame Anopheles had subsisted for
the first two days of her life upon
vegetable diet when her instinct warn
| ed her that the eggs which were al
ready forming In her body, would not
| develop unless she had a meal of blood
she sailed forth to find a victim She
! Heated through an open window and
| softly settled on the cheek of man
wrapt in the profound sleep of exhaus-
| ton following paroXysm of the chill,
| fever and sweating of malarial fever
Only a few drops of blood served to
| fill her stomach to diStention, vet those
, few drops, drawn at the favorable time
| contained numbers of the two elements
| which, only in the stomach of the Ann-
| pheles Mosquito according to present
| knoWledge) can combine to reproduce
| he Amebulae which are the active
| rauSes of malarial fever
Soon in her body thousands of new
| born Amebulae were ready to be car
rted into the blood of the next person
whose skin she punctured
| In a week Madame Anopheles, be
fore, simply an annoyance. had become
a carrier of malarial fever and grave
menace to public health.
| All mosquitoes deposit their eggs in
! either stagnant or very slow moving
water. a rain harrel--an unturned tin
| ana water bucket--pitcher, ANYTHING
| which will hold water. A few days
| later the eggs split and wrigglers
| emerge, fuzzy, squirmng. thread-like
they dart about erraticaIly, now and
| again coming TO the surface for air.
| The Anopheles are equipped with short
| breathing tubes along the rear portion
| IF the back. AS they thrust their air
| -ubes through the surface they are
| forced to assume a position almost
| parallel with the top of the water
Other varieties of Mosquitoes have
much longer breathing tubes situated
1t the extremity of the back, which
cause them to hang with the head
| downward when taking air-ln this
way the Anopheles may be distinguish
| ed even In the larvae or (wrlggIer)
state.
Next comes the pupal stage when the
| larvae changes its form somewhat and
| doats at the surface looking something
ike curled up catfish. After a few
lays of this life, the skin splits and
he full grown mosquito emerges
Male mosquitoes do not bite, it is
lot at all matter of preference, but
because they are not so constructed
hat they can.
Anopheles Mosquitoes are found in
all hot countries, they abound In our
own southern states.
They are also found in Pennsylva-
ala.
There is no malaria where there are
10 Anopheles Mosquitoes The Ano-
)heles can not give malaria unless it
suck blood from malarial patient.
The Anopheles may be distinguished
rom other varieties of mosquito by their
characteristic posture, standing almost
81 their heads and by the black specks
IN their wings,
Patients with malaria must be
screened against mosquitoes.
Mosquitoes can be eXterminated in
any locality by destroying their breed
ng places.
Marshes should be drained, pools of
standing water which cannot be drain
20 should be covered with a thin layer
If oil-kerosene or a crude oil dilution.
A small quantity of oil soon distributes
tself evenly over large body of
water. When mosquito larvae come to
he surface to breathe, the oil fills the
breathing tube and they die from suf-
location. Small receptacles about the
louse containing water may prove ex-
,cllent breeding places for mosquitoes
The drip from the back yards hy-
lrant, the clogged rain spout, the horse
rough are all favorable to MOSQUITO
preceding
In long continued dry seasons the
water traps between surface drains and
sewers in towns and cities afford excel
ent breeding places for mosquitoes
Such traps should either be oiled after
zach rain or routinely flushed once
week to wash out the larvae before
hey have time to develop into mos
IuitOes
With no Anopheles Mosquitoes there
an be no malaria-with no standing
Mater there can be no mosquitoes.
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