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Florida Entomologist 
(Formerly The Florida Buggist) 
Official Organ of the Florida Entomological Society 
VOL. IV SUMMER NUMBER NO. 1 
JULY, 1920 
THE MOSQUITO-MALARIA PROBLEM IN FLORIDA* 
C.F. Hopee, 
Extension Professor of Biology, University of Florida. 
My extension work during the year has taken me from Pensa- 
cola to Miami and over a number of circuits in the northern and 
central sections of the state. In all of my trips a study of this 
problem has occupied a good share of my spare time; and I have 
come unexpectedly to one conclusion which greatly simplifies the 
solution of the mosquito problem. As an observer who accom- 
panied me on one of my excursions expressed it: “We have been 
thinking and looking at the big places and have entirely over- 
looked the little places in which all of our mosquitoes really 
breed.” A rain barrel, a green pool by the watering trough in 
the barnyard, or a pile of tin cans may not amount to the prover- 
bial “drop in the bucket” compared to the nearby lake, marsh or 
cypress swamp, and still all the mosquitoes that infest the farm 
home, the village or town may be breeding in the former places. 
Take a few typical cases. At Stuart I found at the rear of a 
*Given before the June meeting of the Florida Entomological Society. 
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