20 THE FLORIDA ENTOMOLOGIST 
When bought, the dry land was a jungle of trees, brush, and 
thorn filled vines. The swamp and marsh, all of this, plus muck 
and water. The trees were filled with Spanish moss. In warm 
weather the whole place swarmed with mosquitoes. 
Some fourteen acres to the south and west of the spring 
were cleared, and ten of it set out for a citrus grove, and one 
for a vinevard. The rest was used as a site for the necessary 
buildings, for a pig pen, a chicken run, an orchard, a garden, 
and a lawn. As far as was practicable, vines, moss, and under- 
brush were removed from the rest of the place. The larger 
trees were left and make a beautiful woodland park. A six 
room white bungalow with two screened porches and sixteen 
large French windows—the 16 mesh galvanized wire screen- 
ing attached directly to the outside of the window casings by 
14 x1 inch black wood strips—was built. Our outside build- 
ings, electric and water plant and septic tank sewerage installed, 
farm implements and stock purchased, we now had a complete 
farm. A well screened house will remain a necessity until such 
a large area of land is treated that the home lies beyond the 
flight range of all mosquitoes. 
Having a place to live, I now proceeded with my ‘anti-mos- 
quito campaign”’. 
In order that the reader may really understand this fight, 
it is necessary that he first know some few things about the 
mosquito, its friends, its natural enemies, and its enemies’ 
friends and foes. 
The accepted fiight range of the malaria carrying mosquito 
is about a mile. She is only a carrier of malaria, and cannot 
infect one until she has first bitten a person who has malaria. 
Five grains of quinine a day will keep one from getting ma- 
laria, while he gets rid of his mosquitoes. This usually holds 
true no matter how often one may be bitten by infected mos- 
quitoes. In order to reproduce, the mosquito must have a blood 
meal from any warm blooded animal, and water on which to 
lay her eggs. Tin cans, old automobile casings, faulty rain gut- 
ters, water troughs, small puddles, etc., will answer instead of 
ponds and lakes for some mosquitoes. The malaria carrying 
mosquito cannot stand sunlight. Wind modifies greatly the fly- 
ing of all mosquitoes. So dark places and wind breaks of any 
kind are great aids to the pests in their journey to and from 
their blood meal. The male mosquito does not need any blood 
meal, and therefore is not anatomically especially fitted to bite. 
