Show 1 FISH IMPORTED TO UTAH TO CONTROL MOSQUITO MENACE salt lake city mosquito control in salt lake city and utah will not be the big problem to conjure with that it la Is it scientists can call enlist the aid of one alfinis small quick moving fish whose menu Is mosquitoes mosquitoes and more mosquitoes the acclimatization of this semitropical rish fish to its utah habitat lias has been the object of 0 a special mosquito study by don M roes rees instructor of zoology at the university ot of utah working borkine in conjunction with the united states public health service and local ban units starting with twelve Gamb usla brought from tennessee in 1931 mr rees has succeeded to dalein date in raising many thousand ot of the dl di creatures a teat feat that was thought impossible in a region so BO tar far north as utah the species was soon taken from the semitropical semi tropical environment of the aquarium and placed in ponds northwest of salt lake city experimentation peri showed that tile the fish survived in fit certain kinds of ponds even over the winter fish are now plentiful in tile the large pond across the road from the shops of the state road commission in north salt lake the full grown fish Is described as being almost two inches long it to Is very prolific bearing live ott off spring rather than hatching wem e n from eggs as Is the case with most m 0 st fish life it Is insectivorous but can be raised without difficulty in aquaria on the regimen of dried insects and rice flakes an ac an eradicator of mosquitoes Gamb usla is more moie valuable than the carnivorous chub who ln in addition to feeding on the larvae of mosquitoes also has a predilection f tor 0 r game fish E even ven it Gam Gamb buala usla f tails ails to get entirely used to the cold winters he be can be propagated tor for yearly distribution to mosquito breeding grounds |