Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 246, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1913 — FEMALE MAKES THE TROUBLE [ARTICLE]

FEMALE MAKES THE TROUBLE

Certainly In the Case of the Mosquito They Are "More Deadly Than'* the Male.” The attention of many of onr citizens who hitherto have taken little interest In entomological. investigation. has been attracted to what they believe is a new variety of mosquito, a mosquito which in the course of evolution has lost Its bark, but not Its bite; that comes upon one unawares, without a musical accompaniment. Whatever may be said against the insect It should be set' down to Its credit that it takes its nourishment without music, declining to .give that additional smart to one’s misery. This ..active, but diminutive specimen of the genns Culex, now at the close of summer, is beginning a work that will continue until the first sharp frost. As a matter of fact these mosquitoes that have had no difficulty in pushing their way through the smallest meshed wire screens are all females, and for that reason we hear no song. The males are larger, perhaps cannot make their way through the screens, and remain outside, where they sing solos or join in numbers and give hallelujah choruses, and encourage the suffragette sisters at their work inside. The sisters have an insatiable thirst for blood, while the mouth of the male mosquito is not equipped for biting and be does not come into our houses. While the sisters are inside drinking blood the more temperate fathers of the family are outside sipping rainwater.