A PLAGUE OF MOSQUITOS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 3140, 23 October 1922, Page 7

A PLAGUE OF MOSQUITOS.

The whole Baltic Sea coast of Germany, a popular holiday resort, is suffering 'from a most disagreeable plague. The rainy weather has driven large Humberts of visitors back home agaiin long before the end of their holidays, but it hasi done something, worse. Behind the Baltic's fashionable seaside resorts the whole country is flat and swampy. The swamps have been greatly enlarged by the heavy rain, and in them millions and l millions of a newkind of mosquito have come to life. In their swarms these insects have invaded the seaside towns, and life there has become a misery. This insect is not the ordinary mosquito', but is thought to be a, cross between a sort of midge and a mosquito. Its bite isi a fierce one : , and can cause sufficient pain and inconvenience to send its victim to bed. It has none of the agility of the ordinary mosquito in avoiding the avenging band, but the ease with which they are slaughtered avails little. Chemists did an enormous l trade in all sorts of medicaments to prevent or cure bites; and a queue was to be seen outside every chemist's shop all day long. Nearly everybody was l so badly bitten that bathing was (scarcely indulged in at all. Women refrained from wearing their evening dresses, and. as the new mosquito has a weakness i'or feet and ankles, the dancing halls, were almost deserted.