Dragon flies vs. Mosquitoes.
Subtitle: Can the mosquito pest be mitigated?  Studies in the life history of irritating insects, their natural enemies, and artificial checks
By: by working entomologists, with an introduction by Robert H. Lamborn.
Series: Lamborn Prize Essays
Publisher: Appleton
Published: 1890
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 202
Subjects: Dragon-flies; Insects, Injurious and beneficial; Mosquitoes
Table of contents: value: The dipterous enemies of man, by Mrs. C.B. Aaron.-  Utility of dragon flies as destroyers of mosquitoes, by Archibald C. Weeks.-  The destruction of the mosquito, by Wm. Beutenmuller.-  Dragon flies as mosquito hawks on the Western Plains, by C.N.B. Macauley.-  Can the mosquito be exterminated? by Henry C. McCook.-  Appendix.