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Florida Buggist 
Official Organ of the Florida Entomological Society 
VOL III AUTUMN NUMBER NO. 2 
SEPTEMBER, 1919 
(Printed in November) 
*MOSQUITOES FOUND ABOUT GAINESVILLE, FLA. 
By UC) LORTIN 
PART I. SPECIES, BREEDING PLACES, MOSQUITOES AND DISEASE, 
NATURAL ENEMIES, PREVENTIVES 
Mosquitoes have been known to man since time immemorial, 
but so far as we know, there has been only one man who was 
thankful for their existence. In the Old Testament we find that 
when King Saul was seeking David to slay him, he was asleep 
in a cave one night when David entered and secured his spear 
and a bit of his robe. In the Talmud version of this story, we 
are told that King Saul was guarded by Abner who had stretched 
himself across the entrance of the cave so that David had to 
crawl over him to enter. As David was leaving, Abner turned 
and threw his leg over David’s ankle. If David moved, Abner 
would awaken and kill him; if he waited, day would come and 
death would follow. The Lord seeing David’s predicament, sent 
a mosquito to bite Abner and cause him to move his foot, thus 
freeing David who went away thankful and praising God for 
sending the mosquito. Since that time, man has considered them 
a nuisance—not only this, but the more recent discoveries have 
shown them to be transmitters of disease and one of the greatest 
menaces to public health with which we have to contend. 
Mosquitoes are found everywhere, from the frozen arctic 
regions to the depths of the tropical jungle. When Linnaeus, in 
1758, published his catalogue of all the animals then known to 
exist, he recorded only six species of mosquitoes. Theobald 
*Thesis presented at the Univ. of Fla., in 1913, for the degree of Master of 
Science. 
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