. Handbook of nature-study for teachers and parents, based on the Cornell nature-study leaflets. Nature study. Insect Study 405 The Adult Mosquito 1. Has the mosquito feathery antennas extending out in front ? If so, what kind of mosquitoes are such ? 2. Do the mosquitoes with bushy antennse bite? Do they sing? 3. Are the wings of the mosquito spotted or plain? How many has it? 4. When at rest, is it shortened and humpbacked or does it stand straight out with perhaps its hind legs in the air? 5. What are the characteristics by which you can tell the dangerous Anopheles? 6. Why is the Anopheles
. Handbook of nature-study for teachers and parents, based on the Cornell nature-study leaflets. Nature study. Insect Study 405 The Adult Mosquito 1. Has the mosquito feathery antennas extending out in front ? If so, what kind of mosquitoes are such ? 2. Do the mosquitoes with bushy antennse bite? Do they sing? 3. Are the wings of the mosquito spotted or plain? How many has it? 4. When at rest, is it shortened and humpbacked or does it stand straight out with perhaps its hind legs in the air? 5. What are the characteristics by which you can tell the dangerous Anopheles? 6. Why is the Anopheles more dangerous than the Culex? 7. Examine a mosquito's wing under a microscope and describe it. 8. Examine the antennae of a male and a female mosquito under a microscope, and describe the difference. 9. Which sex of the mosquito does the biting and the singing? 10. How is the singing done? THE HOUSE-FLY Teacher's Story ' HE house-fly is surely an up-to-date member of that select class which evolutionists call the "; It flourishes in every land, plumping itself down in front of us at table, whether we be eating rice in Hong Kong, dhura in Egypt, macaroni in Italy, pie in America, or tamales in Mexico. There it sits, impertinent and imperturbable, taking its toll, letting down its long elephant-trunk tongue, rasping and sucking up such of our meal as fits its needs. As long as we simply knew it as a thief we, during untold ages, merely slapped it and shooed it, which effort on our part apparently gave it exhilarating exercise. But during recent years we have begun trapping and poisoning, trying to match our brains against its agility; although we slay it by thousands, we seem only to make more room for its well-fed progeny of the future, and in the end we seem to have gained nothing. But the most recent discoveries of science have revealed to us, that what the house-fly takes of our food, is of little consequence to what it leaves behind. Because of this, we have
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