MOSQUITO PEST
HAMPSHIRE INVADED Mosquitoes have become sufficiently troublesome in Hampshire to cause the Havant Council to prepare a Parliamentary Bill to give them powers to compel control. Work of a voluntary character is already in progress, and Hayling Island has a British Mosquito Control Institute in which Sir Ronald Ross was Interested. What is done is to drain marshlands or to pour petroleum on pools to prevent the laying of eggs—the larvae being only able to live in water.
There are about 20 species of mosquitoes in England, usually called gnats, though the less threatening name does not make them any more agreeable.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXV, Issue 12296, 9 April 1937, Page 3
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