. Bulletin. Agriculture; Agriculture. no N. J. Agricultural Experiment Station, Bulletin 348 Life Habits To J. Turner Brakeley belongs the credit of having tirst worked out many of the life habits of this mosquito. Mr. Brakeley's ob- servations, as recorded by Dr. J. B. Smith/ covered a period of i year and demonstrated: (i) that there is only one brood; (2) the larvae hibernate and remain attached to the mass of roots of aquatic plants even when the water freezes solid; (3) neither larvae nor. Fig. 69. Typical breeding place of tlie Irritating Mosquito. (After John B. Smith). pupae normally e
. Bulletin. Agriculture; Agriculture. no N. J. Agricultural Experiment Station, Bulletin 348 Life Habits To J. Turner Brakeley belongs the credit of having tirst worked out many of the life habits of this mosquito. Mr. Brakeley's ob- servations, as recorded by Dr. J. B. Smith/ covered a period of i year and demonstrated: (i) that there is only one brood; (2) the larvae hibernate and remain attached to the mass of roots of aquatic plants even when the water freezes solid; (3) neither larvae nor. Fig. 69. Typical breeding place of tlie Irritating Mosquito. (After John B. Smith). pupae normally ever come to the surface; (4) egg-laying begins while a considerable percentage of the previous season's larvae are still immature; (5) adult mosquitoes begin to appear early in June and continue to come in noticeable numbers throughout the season. The irritating mosquito breeds mostly in swampy places. The habit of the larvae and pupae of securing their oxygen supply with- out coming to the surface renders the immature stages of this spe- cies radically different from nearly all others. 'Smith, J. B., 1908. Report on the mosquito work for k Agr. Exp. Sta. 29th Ann. Rpt., p. 412. In N. 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 New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station. [New Brunswick, N. J. ] : The Station
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