Show class mosquito among worst of insect pests mosquitoes lay more men low than lions tigers wolves and venomous banales and we cant shoot them we cant with any degree of real triumph rout them from their chosen work of preying on the human race and yet the mosquito originally where there were no human beings found his or her for it Is the female that Is the more deadly of the species sustenance in the sap of leaves but the mosquito took to a more fiery and habit forming drink and now Is our most and persistent insect i enemy we have long been convinced that the mosquito does not cares it does not tear the human race and has learned how to carry on operations for transfusion of blood without danger to itself and in this function it transfuses trans fuses everything else from yellow fever to day by day or every other day fever and ague incidentally the mosquito has developed quinine into one of the best money making drugs on the globe |