. Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ... session of the Legislature of the State of California . y very long and usually widely spread, so thatthe insect has the appearance of walking on stilts. The family Blepharoeeridse, the net-winged midges, includes severalfamilies of aquatic insects, somewhat resembling mosquitoes in form,but different from them in wing venation. They breed in swiftlyrunning water, and in some species there are two forms of females, oneof which is blood-sucking, while the other lives by sipping nectar. The family Dixidse is another family of midge
. Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ... session of the Legislature of the State of California . y very long and usually widely spread, so thatthe insect has the appearance of walking on stilts. The family Blepharoeeridse, the net-winged midges, includes severalfamilies of aquatic insects, somewhat resembling mosquitoes in form,but different from them in wing venation. They breed in swiftlyrunning water, and in some species there are two forms of females, oneof which is blood-sucking, while the other lives by sipping nectar. The family Dixidse is another family of midges also resembling mos-quitoes, and differing from the former family in wing venation. The family Culieidae is one alto-gether too well known, as it is inthis that we find the whole abom-inable race of mosquitoes. This isnot a very large family, althoughit is perhaps one of the worst ene-mies with which the animal world,including man himself, has to con-tend. Members of this family arefound the world over. In somesections of the tropics they are sobad as to render the places infestedby them uninhabitable, and miners. FIG. 75. Adult female of Culex pipiena,enlarged. (Miss. Agr. Exp. Station.) 120 REPORT OP THE COMMISSIONER OF HORTICULTURE.
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