THE MOSQUITO. 



short slender tail. It swims thru the water by making quick, 

 violent jerks with the slender tail, and when at rest floats at the 

 surface of the water with the back of the big head end uppermost 

 and the slender tail hanging down. 



The wrigglers and eggs and pupae can be kept in wide 

 mouthed glass jars (fruit jars, glasses, etc.) two- thirds filled with 

 water, (fig. 4) The water should not be too good, or the wrig- 

 glers will lack food; water from the pool or ditch in which the 



FIG. 5. Larra ("wrigglr") of mosquito; a, arfenna; t, tuft of hairs; e, eye; b t, breathlfcf 



tube. 



