ill be the same,
whether the insect gets its meal or not. In fact, it has been said
that if a mosquito be allowed to suck its fill and then fly, the bite
will not itch, and there is just a basis of justification for this."

To make a scientific inquiry into the habits of the mosquito, and to
do it patiently, one should be far from the maddening swarms, or at
least effectively screened in. Then it would be possible to believe
the statement of the Government's entomologist that not "one mosquito
in a million" ever gets the opportunity to taste the blood of a
warm-blooded animal. As proof of this there are, in this country,
great tracts of marshy land never frequented by warm-blooded animals,
and in which mosquitoes are breeding in countless numbers. The point
is emphasized by the prevalence of mosquitoes in the arctic circle and
other uninhabited regions.

If this gory insect does not live by blood alone, how is it nourished?
Female mosquitoes are by nature vegetarians; they are plant feeders.
Why they should draw blood at all is a question which remains
unsolved by entomologists--as well as by the suffering victims. The
females have been observed sucking the nectar from flowers; obtaining
nutriment from boiled potatoes, even from watermelon rinds, from which
they extract the juice. As regards the blood habit, the male mosquito
is a "teetotaler." Just how this male insect lives, scientists have
not determined. He may not take nourishment at all. At any rate, the
mouth parts of the male are so different from those of the female that
it is probable his food is obtained differently. The male is often
seen sipping at drops of water, and a taste for molasses is ascribed
to the male mosquito by one authority.

_Presence of Mosquitoes Depends Upon Winds_

A common remark heard along the Jersey shore, also on Long Island, is
this: "When we have a sea breeze we are not troubled with mosquitoes,
but when there comes a land breeze they are a pest." While this
observation is true, the reasons therefore entertained by the
unscientific mind are erroneous. The matter of the absence or
abundance of mosquitoes in varying winds is closely related to the
inquiry which entomologists have made: how far will mosquitoes fly?
Says one investigator:

"The migration of mosquitoes has been the source of much
misapprehension on the part of the public. The idea prevalent at our
seaside resorts that a land breeze brings swarms of mosquitoes fr