Show HOW LONG mosquitoes LIVE scientist Selen tUt asserts the peats pests exist exist through the winter it Is not cnown 1 just how long mos QuIto 15 can live but their average life Is much longer than Is fis ordinarily supposed thousands 0 of them live through tho the winter hibernating or asleep in dark places in barns or house cellars collars in sparsely settled localities cali ties where they can not find such places for shelter they live through the winter in hollow trees and even though the temperature may fall tar far below freezing they are not winter killed but on the approach of warm weather become active again mosquitoes Al are frequently neen seen flying about in the woods before the snow has wholly left the ground william byman underwood in the popular science monthly i |