This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 Excerpt: ...person do much toward getting rid of flies unless his neighbors help him? 26. What breeding places do flies choose above all others? 27. What can you use to destroy flies, or keep them away from places? 28. Tell how people should keep their premises in order to discourage flies from visiting them. 29. Why is it ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 Excerpt: ...person do much toward getting rid of flies unless his neighbors help him? 26. What breeding places do flies choose above all others? 27. What can you use to destroy flies, or keep them away from places? 28. Tell how people should keep their premises in order to discourage flies from visiting them. 29. Why is it necessary to keep one's windows and doors carefully screened? 30. Should all people join together "to swat" the fly? CHAPTER XI A Disease Carrier--The Mosquito In the preceding chapter, we saw how much disease and misery are spread among all sorts of people by the little house fly. But another member of the insect family, very common in all climates, mosquito and known as the mosquito, has a bad record, spreads almost if not quite equal to that of the house fly, as a carrier of disease germs. It does not carry the kinds of microbes that a fly does, but it spreads disease just as readily in another way. While there are some mosquitoes that distribute no microbes, still many of them carry the germs of malaria, and still others those of yellow fever. It is quite probable that other diseases common in warm countries are also due to mosquitoes. One must swallow some of the bacteria the fly carries in order that they may have a chance to work havoc in the body. But microbes carried by the mosquito must get into the blood directly in order to do any harm. The mosquito has a long, slender, sucking mouth. To the naked eye, it looks quite like a humming bird's beak. But when we come to examine it, we find it is really a sheath that covers six separate mouth parts, --lances to pierce with, tubes, saws, and such devices. The female mosquito has the stronger mouth parts, and it is she that does most of the harm to human beings. When the mosquito bites, s...
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