Show mosquito said to have no use for naphthalene malaria bearing mosquitoes emulate santa claus lo in some parts of the south when they find doors and windows screened they come down the chimney and hearing bearing unwelcome gifts of fever n ague but bat you can keep then them out by banging a little basket of naphthalene the stuff mothballs moth balls are made of at the top of 0 the chimney they hate bate it and will zoom out of its range as soon as they smell it ac no DO matter how much good biting may lie ile slumbering below this Is one of the curious facts about mosquito behavior v which have been learned by the united states public health service not all mosquitoes will enter houses by coming down chimneys and it Is not known whether all of them can be driven off with naphthalene one species however boever responds in this way anopheles the four spotted malaria mosquito but she Is important enough to mako make this ahli bit of entomological knowledge very much worth having |