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Show COLOR LIKED BY MOSQUITOES, j Little Pests Found to be Partial ta Dark Blue. Color plays an important part In I the attraction or repulsion of certain Insects. It was noticed during the Cuban war that the American soldiers sol-diers who were clad in the regulation oavy-blue shirts suffered much more severely than any others from the bites of mosquitoes. The surgeon-general surgeon-general instl' :ted a series of tests Ha had boxej painted with various colors and placed in a mosquito-haunted mosquito-haunted neighborhood. It was found that the one painted bl'ie attracted 108 insects, next came brown and I dark red, but these attracted only two each. Yel'ow failed to secure a singie mosquito visitor. As a consequence, con-sequence, blue shirts will no longer be issued to troops in mosquTv!nfest-ed mosquTv!nfest-ed regions. Travelers ar recommend recom-mend to wea." some khaki-colored material when journeying In the tropics. |