Word: mosquitoe
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Jaguar in a Cage. Despite his cattle wealth, Lohman lives like a frontiersman. His ranch house is surrounded by a palm-log stockade, has no running water, no plumbing. Screening for the bedrooms is his one concession to comfort in the mosquito-infested Chaco...
...achieved its earliest fame by supplying Rome's toughest gladiators and most durable prostitutes. Since then it has energetically produced a steady stream of hoodlums, revolutionaries, first-class soccer teams and the most colorful nicknames on the Italian peninsula (Trasteverini know each other by such names as the Mosquito, the Tub and the Big Balloon). "We don't quite know how we got to be different from everyone else," said the Mosquito last week as he polished up the wine glasses at his bar in the Via della Lungaretta. "I guess it's just a tradition sent...
Soresi contends that pain gives no protection against injury because it gives no signal until after some injury has been suffered. (The same argument might be used against fire alarms, which do not sound until a fire has broken out.) Pain does not even give protection against mosquito bites, he argues, because it is felt only after the mosquito "has sucked your blood and perhaps infected you with malaria." Soresi does not mention the fact that after one or two mosquito bites, most people know enough to head for a screened porch...
...everything from farms to funerals, crops to courting, health, weather and insects. He has learned that a dragonfly is a great help in filling out an isogloss. Yankees in some parts of New England call it a devil's darning needle, while some Southern Coast people go for mosquito hawk, and the Pennsylvania-Dutch merely turn the Old Country name for it into English: snake waiter...
...genus Harpagomyia preys on ants. The mosquito alights in front of an ant and holds it tightly with its forelegs. After a while the ant opens its mouth. The mosquito inserts its proboscis and sucks up food which the ant squeezes from its stomach. Both parties seem to enjoy this interchange. The mosquito vibrates its wings with pleasure; the shmoo-like ant caresses the mosquito's proboscis with its palpi...