Mosquiticide

Marvelous schemes for mosquiticide by ether means have been conceived—but they all fall through.

40 % mortality was obtained and a reduction in the number of larvæ on subsequent days, which points to the fact that DDT’s effect was greater as a mosquiticide than as a larvicide.

Our first visit to the anti-mosquito shelf of the supermarket revealed three basic weapons in the armoury – you can spray them with mosquiticide, fumigate them with the smoke from smouldering green coils, or use a plug-in device whose mode of operation was impossible to properly ascertain.