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FLORIDA ENTOMOLOGIST 
Official Organ of The Florida Entomological Society, Gainesville, 
Florida. 
‘PROFESSOR 3° R: WATSON 222... eee Editor 
ORS Wi AMIONE LING WH eee ce ee ee Associate Editor 
DREW. BERGER 22s 2. fea ee ee eee Business Manager 
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MOSQUITOES 
THE ENTOMOLOGIST is receiving many complimentary letters 
on the article by Dr. Hodge in the last number. The awakening 
interest in this most important matter of reducing the mosquito 
fauna of our state is indeed encouraging. 
In this connection the Jacksonville Times-Union of Sept. 12 
has an interesting article on the campaign now being waged to 
make the city of Perry an example and an object lesson for the 
other cities of the state. 
Last month the editor spent an all too brief vacation in one of 
our beach resorts. We enjoyed the days hugely; the fish bit 
well and the surf was fine. But the nights! Well, it was nec- 
essary, soon after sunset, to beat an inglorious retreat to the 
shelter of our rooms and stay there. The half hour before retiring 
was dedicated to mosquito swatting and it was frequently nec- 
essary to repeat the operation between 12 N. and 2 A. M. How- 
much more attractive would be our resorts would they but spend 
a few thousand dollars in cleaning up the local breeding places of 
mosquitoes. 
At the “city limits” of many of our towns we see a sign ‘“Wel- 
come to Our City’. It tickles our vanity to feel that the resi- 
dents think enough of us to erect those signs. But, unfortunate- 
ly, in many towns the culicidae extend an even more hearty wel- 
come, including a reception committee of “prominent citizens” 
to meet us the second our car stops. 
Now in all this we are not “knocking” Florida but endeavor- 
ing to do a little missionary work. If the mosquito were a nec- 
essary evil we would be like the “man convinced (by his wife) 
against his will’, who was “of the same opinion still’”— (mighty 
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