. St. Nicholas [serial]. A FAVORITE NESTING -PLACE OFTHE MOSQUITO. The eggs are laid on the surface, andthe young mosquitos swim in the A MOSQUITO EXPERIENCE. She approaches, expectant, on bloody business bent, singing a high-pitched, joyful song. She alights upon the investigators sleeve, and the songceases. She likes not the sampling thereof, and removes, the song contin-ued, to the willing victims finger-tip. She proceeds to business, and fills her-self with blood and the finger with itching, whereat, rejoicing exceedingly,she harkens away, singing again, and lays numerous eggs in t
. St. Nicholas [serial]. A FAVORITE NESTING -PLACE OFTHE MOSQUITO. The eggs are laid on the surface, andthe young mosquitos swim in the A MOSQUITO EXPERIENCE. She approaches, expectant, on bloody business bent, singing a high-pitched, joyful song. She alights upon the investigators sleeve, and the songceases. She likes not the sampling thereof, and removes, the song contin-ued, to the willing victims finger-tip. She proceeds to business, and fills her-self with blood and the finger with itching, whereat, rejoicing exceedingly,she harkens away, singing again, and lays numerous eggs in the rain-filledtomato-can. While they find shelter in the low herbage,mosquitos depend absolutely on water or verymoist earth for existence, though winds willsometimes blow them quite a distance awayfrom water and in great numbers. This ex-plains the fact, often noted, that a town or vil-lage near the sea is sometimes visited for daysby hordes of these insects, and again is sud-denly freed from them when the wind shifts tothe opposite points of the compass. Mosquitos have many enemies: bats andbirds, and, more than these, dragon-flies cat
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