Mosquito Life History and Control Hints for Summer
As summer nears readers learn how mosquitoes breed in stagnant water and even brackish seas, with females needing blood before laying eggs. Eggs hatch in about three days, wrigglers stay a week, pupae surface in 7 to 10 days and adults fly short distances. Each female can produce 250 to 900 offspring. local districts breed their own mosquitoes around unscreened water vessels and dark hiding places. In Havana, 40,000 people died from yellow fever caused by stegomyia fancy mosquito before authorities stamped out the outbreak in 90 days.
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Iicinity
Havana
Life magazine review highlights English team and Bradman risk
Eric Welsh lauds Life's sporting coverage praising his England versus Australia test preview and notes Bradman’s possible absence would be a national tragedy. The issue also offers golf instruction by Don Thompson, fiction in Six Weeks to Live, and stories Blue Print Baby Evidence. C N Scott, Manila stationer, sends the copy.
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Australia
Eric Welsh
Life
England
Bradman
Welch
Qur Don Thompson
George Allen Eneland
Karl Detzer
Worrell Gregory
C. N. Scott
Stationer
Manila
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Stoddart and Hayward
Stephens’ Pharmacy
Manilla Street
Manilla
Jantzens
M. C. Mackenzie & Sons
H. C. Dengate
Opposite Mechanics Institute
Loughboys Mattresses
Qak Bedateads
Stoddart and Hayward Ltd
Sydney
Kodak Dealer
Ferriers
Cyrus
Court Howe Hotel
Vanilla
Stemoper and Newsagent
George Street
Court House
Mr. A. Newall
Flo
Westminster
Roberts Bros. Bwellers
Dewellery Sters
Roberts Bros. Jewellers
A. C. Blanch
Strafford Street
Royal Hotel
A. E. Bailey
New South Wales
Clerk of Petty Sessions
W. H. Whiddon
Tomspay
Deilement
Lisle
SEA 4
Girls College
Panama
Harmony House
R. J. Kingston
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