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...portly Mrs. Stella Barnhouse was informed she had been declared "World's Best Liar" for 1936 by the Burlington (Wis.) Liars' Club, which awarded her a medal in the form of a miniature lyre. Liar Barn-house's story: To relieve its hunger, a gargantuan Michigan mosquito buzzed into a barnyard, spied a tough old mule named Maud. Halfway down the mosquito's gullet, Maud let go a fierce kick, broke the insect's neck, saved the town...
...rule bears an unfortunate resemblance to a mosquito. It is not a large animal, but after being irritated for a sufficient length of time, the tormented soul would cheerfully attack a lion with his bare hands to provide an outlet for his spleen. The rule, of course, works especial hardship upon the students rooming alone, but its nuisance value is appreciated even by men with several roommates...
...almost inaudible whine, fainter than a mosquito, rose to my ears from the back axle. Only harsh critics would have heard...
...entomologist said that the insects would do little or no harm to flowers and shrubs, would make a fearful racket later on when they began to mate. Meanwhile there was nothing to do. If the gardener insisted on keeping the invaders away from his flowers, he could spread mosquito netting over the beds. Periodical cicadas are not locusts at all. When pious New England pioneers found them in enormous numbers, they thought of the locust plagues of the Bible, called the cicadas "locusts." The 17-year cicada is the longest lived of any known insect. One or more broods appear...
...Paris M. Raoul Michel-May suggested to the French Academy of Sciences a new method of exterminating mosquitoes in open ponds. At present a favorite method is to spread a thin film of oil on the water. When the mosquito larvae, which breathe through tubes in their tails, thrust their tails out of water to get air, oil clogs the tubes and the larvae suffocate. M. May recommended sprinkling the water with talcum powder impregnated with a compound of chlorine and ethane which would choke the larvae to death but would not harm human beings...