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HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 22ND,

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OUR SUMMER INSECT PESTS.

HOW TO BATTLE WITH THEM.

ENORMOUS BREEDING.

One of the chief things to remember in a campaign against insert pests that; the job must be done thoroughly to be effective owing to the enormous breeding The China Smurnal of Solence and Arta | powers of these creatures, Given the

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means of destroying them, a eleau sweep must be made, or in a very short while Now that the summer in full swing all will be to do over again. Of course, the over present problem of how to exter-screened dopes and windows are ณ minate the numerous insect pests with essential in "enbatting such insects as which mankind is troubled confronts us flies and mosquitoes, though in both cases with its usual insistence. All of us in one the places of, origin-ply, stagnant way or another are subject to annoyance pomla, garbage heaps, refuse bins, ele, by noxious insets, and, indeed, when we should, of course, revive careful atten- stop to consider the question, we must tion.. Within the huse, fly traps, dy come to realise that insets more than any paper, and sprays may be wird. One very other group of animals are the eeries of good way of killing off flies is to place man on this earth.

a plate with a weak formaldehyde solu- has been estimated that there are to this, drink a little and then crawl

tion in it on the table. Flies are attract more species of insects, the term being

sed in its restricted sense and only in away a few inches and die. cluding the members of the class are the market which inny house very There are a number of insecticides on or six-legged arthropods, than there effectively against flies and mosquitoes. species of all the rest of the animal king. One which has been much advertised of dem put together, a fast which is remark- able, to say the lenst of it. It is signiate, and is red in a sprayer, has be

used by us with very satisfactory results. of ficant in that it shows that this group animals has proved, on the whole, far more successful than any other, its only serious rival being man himself.

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When we come to think of it, we find Chot not only atten fasects themselves arrayed against us in che struggle for existence, but they have, so to speak. entered into an alliance with that other great group of "onemies to man, the mierobes, in a war of extermination, and our ingenuity is taxed to the extreme limit in order to survive in the terrible confict that is ever raging.

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FLEAS, MOTHS, COCKROACHES. house is to insist on absolute cleanliness "The only way to keep down Heas ia a

on the part of the servants, and not to encourage cats and dogs. The grubs of Hens live in and feed on the accumulations of dust and debris that

are apt to occur. in our houses.. Cats and dogs bring the insects in, and the minuto white gg of the latter' are scattered over the tors getting into dusty cracks and crannies,

wheres they hatch on, and where the grubs live and thrive till the time comes for them to change into perfect insects. The use of disinfectants on the floor is very im

Lesen where the latter appear to

spotlessly clena. Moths must be tackled in the closets and Supboards where they lurk and carry on their destructive work. Every house wife knows what to do in the case of thes

Mosquitos, flies, fleas, lice, and bedbugs nre all true insects, and have all been bo krut. found guilty as disease carriers and trans- mitters. The number of humans that die annually from fly-borne disenges runs into hundreds of thousands, nor is the immber of those killed by germs transmitted from one human to another by mosquitoes much less. Lice, it appears, are entirely

sts, kur care should be taken not ta eve old woollen goods that are not w

about, for they will inevitably form a ground for the moths.

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| responsible for "the spread of typhus, ai, life breed garments, carpets, Sc.,]

of course, as everyone knows, the bubonie plague is spread purely by the agency of the cominen rat flea.

The damage done every year to wool len goods, furs and the like by different species of fierulepidoptera, of “which the linary clothes math is the best, kuST xample, is inenleulable, while enormous quantities of cereal food stuffs are ruined by the activities of these insects and weevils.

The farmer, market gardener and hor fiealturalist have to wage a never ead ing war on a host of different kind of in- sects in order to reap the rewards of their labours, while the good house wife is qually put to it in her endeavours to keep her kitchen free from the ubiquitous rockroach that gets into everything and breedy-well. like fies!

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and

should be destroyed by firm.

Finally we have rockroaches to deal with. These are to many the most dis gusting inseed, that infest our homes: nad is may be stated at once that the only way to keep them out of our kitebers and pantries is to make sure that they cann get

at any food. If food is left abiit where they can get at it, wooner or later they will make their appearance, and once they get into a kitchen or cupbearil it is extremely difficult to get rid of them.

In

recent experiments, however, we have found two substances used in sprays very effective, and these are the much advertised solution already mentioned and enrbon- tetrachloride liquid, such as is used in fire extinguishers. These liquids if sprayvil into the cracks and crannies where rock- roaches turk will kill the insects very quickly. Bel-bags may also be destroyed

The librarian is troubled for his locks, | -ilver-fishinget and the bookworm: the in this wax said before, the great thing|

which are subject the attacks of the

architet, building contractor and land. lol are harassed with thoughts of the al-deviring whiteant or termite, which works in the dark, and whose presence nerer even suspreted till the daninge is quine,

The least 19h inseca do us is to

muke life a misery during the warmer months, by buzzing round our curs, sting" ing us in sundry places, raining on

lothes, getting into our food: the worst is to engke sickness, pain and death, often in an appalling scale.

The cry of humanity," then, is how to be rid of these insect pests, how to exter- minate them, or, at least; how to safe- guard itself against their attacks.

MAN'S SHIFTLESSNESS,

Ou the whole it is somewhat to be won-f dered at that man today is still so help Jess a prey to the insect world. In spite of the fact that' scientists have devotesl siderable time to the problem, with, in many cases, extraordinary succes, mau- kind is still a victim, and we cannot help wondering why this should be,

It is to be 'fearod, that the chief relison why inget posts remain in this, the age of enlighteumen; and scientific progress, great menace and surge to the Face as ever, is that there is such deplorable lack of cardinated effort on the purt

of mankind is the fight against insects, and what is gained a one point through the vigorous buslaught of one, section of the community is lost at another The through the listeness of the rest. efforts of those who put forth any effort at all are more prone to be directed to securing their own individual freedom from attack than to combining with others in a general plan of campaign, and it is left

latter to the authorities to direct the

in most cases without the co-opera- tion of, sometimes even in the face of, direct antagonism and obstruction from the individual, More serially in this the case in a country like Chiun, where the native seem to revel in dirt, and where the need of sanitation is in no way realised by the average, citizen,.

MOSQUITOE.

We have a splendid example of what can be done in the way of wholesale and completo extermination of insect pests in the campaign organised and carried out by: Colonel Gorgas in the Panama Zone against the mosquitoes, "resulting in the elimination of the deadly, yellow fevery and making the completion of the great canal possible;

What has been done in the Pänazga against the mosquito can be done cla where" not only against the mosquito, but against every insect pest, provided the matter is undertaken with the same deter- mination and the whole community is enlisted in the fight, and gives it; whole- hearted support. How this is

to be done

is a matter for the health department, backed by the full authority of the rul body, in each community, to decide, and we suggest that in such a place as Shanghai a committee with considerable powers to act be appointed to deal with each of the numerous pests, and that the co-operation of each householder be made compulsory, if necessary,

The methods of dealing effectively with the mosquito. are too well-known to need any commere here, but there are other. pests which calli for, extermination, "and for the sake of those who are desirous of. getting rid of such peste, but who are ignorant of the ways and means we give ran few helpful suggestions based upon, actual experience.

But

in combatting insect pests is the united action of all ncerned, and, firtje is to be Rained in the long run by the spasmodic

individuals

scattered throughout fforts of

the community.

It is only by means of a well-thought- out campaign embracing the whole com | wanity that the source of these pests can be tackled and teal and lasting efficis, be obtained.

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