. The book of bugs. The Book of Bugs. As to offspring, mosquitoes believe: The more, the merrier. Well, they may; they don't have to raise them. There is no walking the floor nights with the youngest, or sitting up to mend stockings; no worrying about the second summer—you know if you bring them through the second summer all right;—there is no scheming to put Tom through Harvard, or Dorothy through Vassar. It is very simple. Mamma lays from twenty to forty dozen eggs in some quiet pool, along about. Fig. 9. Culex pungens : egg-mass above in the center; young larva, greatly enlarged, at right;
. The book of bugs. The Book of Bugs. As to offspring, mosquitoes believe: The more, the merrier. Well, they may; they don't have to raise them. There is no walking the floor nights with the youngest, or sitting up to mend stockings; no worrying about the second summer—you know if you bring them through the second summer all right;—there is no scheming to put Tom through Harvard, or Dorothy through Vassar. It is very simple. Mamma lays from twenty to forty dozen eggs in some quiet pool, along about. Fig. 9. Culex pungens : egg-mass above in the center; young larva, greatly enlarged, at right; young larvae, not so much enlarged, below; en- larged eggs above at left (original). three o'clock in the morning, and considers her duty amply done. The inherited experience of ages has taught her that it is best to mass them together in a pointed ellipse slightly concave on the top, the eggs being little end up. The air so sticks to the mass that it is impossible to wet it. Push it under water and it bobs up again, light as a cork. In sixteen hours the larvae come out on the under side and begin a most active existence. They are the wigglers. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Sutherland, Harvey. New York ; London : Street & Smith
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