Show COLORS OF WHICH THE MOSQUITO MOSQUITO MOS MOS- QUITO I IS AFRAID Dr Balfour Stewart Steart a distinguished Cambridge graduate has ti been n conducting conduct conduct- h ing a s series pf of e exceedingly Inter interesting sting exp experiments w with th mosquitoes on the I west coast of Africa under the auspices t of f the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine He has been testing their I Y their f fondness or aver f I r certain colors In In sp spacious clous photographic studio a i lf muslin large tent was set up with one oner r hd against the glass window through which the sunlight streamed At the i pf the tent were some som large large- If Ii pans for the anopheles to breed In and I tr these thes time to time were renewed t i On On one side of the tent seventeen 1 without lids were plied piled one upon upon 1 the other the other the order being c changed each v 1 da day so as a'S to eliminate any preference Sue u to position or exposure to light E Each box was lined with a cloth having hav hav- ing a slightly rough surface not nOlt a aV V I 1 shiny or smooth one to which a mosquito mos mos- p quito could easily cling The experiment l ment ment consisted In counting the number fir firof of mosquitoes fund found in each box on t se see e teen different days The results i obtained bt were striking o r rp p During the seventeen days on on which the the- counts were made mosquitoes n f j in the navy blue box 90 1 In i red box SJ in a reddish brown 59 II lq the scarlet box 49 in th the blac box There was at this point a au u Sharp sh rn drop of 31 In the slate gray box boxi i l iid d 24 In an olive green box Violet lf n and fu full blue boxes had re re- re CI IY IS 8 17 F and 14 H. Pearl gray f had h I pale pale green 4 light blue 3 ochre and 2 each orange 1 and pale 0 tel o V about the color of khaki none i at all all' tL V. V It is evident that certain colors have a. a marked power of attracting mos mos- v II and that the color which is by far the t e most attractive is navy blue h avoids light colors espe- espe cI ny those with a tinge of yellow I iol this It seems that khaki colored I H have oth r advantages bej be- be j s t of invisibility on a light soil H In M Madagascar the French sc scientist JM J lY noticed that the mosquitoes yere attracted ted bj by a black soil more I n by a a. r red d. d or light on one and that vA shoes shoe and sI socks W t Oie often b bitten n than those vho se who I or light colored coverings feet While a black dog was P eJ rely 1 bitten and driven half balt mad l its companion who was x ye f u. u t Vas not bothered In the least |