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for a very large proportion of the normal breeding places dry up. 

 In certain localities where many brooks occur, the loss of normal 

 breeding places through extreme dry weather may be more than 

 compensated for by the reduction of the brooks to series of pools in 

 which mosquitoes breed in enormous numbers. 



The house moscjuito is not thought to fly far — not more than a 

 few hundred yards. Recently, however, evidence has been accumu- 

 lated to show that where it breeds over a large area in countless 

 numbers, it may infest adjacent territory for a distance of 2.5 miles. 



Fig. 50. Typical breeding places of the house mosquito ; old barrels are 



proliiic breeders of mosquitoes. (Photo by Passaic County 



Mosquito Extermination Commission). 



The White-Dotted Mosquito 

 {Culcx restuans Theob.) i 



This species looks so much like the house mosquito that a magni- 

 fying glass is needed to detect the difference. Through the glass 

 two perfectly round white dots can be seen on the thorax just in 

 front of the base of a U-shaped white mark. 



While the adults do not get into the houses so generally, they do 

 accompany C. pipiens and occasion a considerable amount of suf- 

 fering. With the exception of its habit of selecting clean water for 

 breeding, its life history and habits are the same as those of C. 

 pipiens. The larva is much like C. pipiens but differs in having the 

 antennal tuft at a point less than half the distance from base to tip. 



