What is nicer that a lovely backyard garden pond. The lush growth rising above the water, graceful fish darting about and the soothing sound of the water. These are just a few of the reasons people are drawn to water gardens.

But when you think about adding a water feature to your garden, y ...
Author: Scottie Johnson
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As UK temperatures have risen, so has the potential threat from mosquitoes. There is some anecdotal evidence that the level of mosquito bites to humans has risen in the UK. The CIEH National Pest Advisory Panel has recently set up Mosquito Watch in the UK.

As we know, mosquito bites are usu ...
Author: Vernon Stent
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If you are a serious gardener, you spend lots of time outdoors. And, for sure, you would rather be tending your plants than swatting mosquitoes.

While there are many things you can do to keep mosquitoes away, there are some plants that will beautify your yard and help repel mosquitoes.

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We have seen how the most dismal, long, hard, expensive experimentation was necessary to bring the wild and timid bat from its home in the mountain wilderness, without in the least subduing it from its state of Nature, to a home in civilization. So we may expect to encounter difficulties in the breeding of this beautiful and most valuable insect near our homes, in public parks, open places, or, better still, on our own lawns. Then they will clean up our diurnal mosquitoes, thereby providing for a twenty-four-hour-a-day warfare waged against that most malevolent of insects, the mosquito; by the bat at night, by the dragon fly during the day.

This is the goal that the student must set for herself. How can it be won?

CHARACTERISTICS OF THE DRAGON FLY

Dragon flies are known in various localities by different names; "snake feeders," "snake doctors," "Devil's darning needles," "mosquito hawks," and various other appellations indicating that something of superstition surrounds their existence. The study of the different species of these insects and their habits is indeed most interesting. There are many hundreds of kinds, found all over the world; and, geologically speaking, they are of most ancient origin. Fossil specimens of enormous size have been found in the lithographic limestone at Solenhofen, Germany, in deposits of Jurassic age. Some of the specimens are more than eight inches in width. When we consider the size of the present-day mosquito which serves the present-day dragon fly as food, we can draw a vivid mental picture of the size of the mosquito that served as food for the monster dragon fly of that period, nine million years ago.

To observe this creature emerging from the larva into adult life is indeed a marvelous sight. From the sluggish, ugly chitinous box, our eyes behold the development of a strong, daring, and combative creature, which in a few minutes of oxidation acquires beautiful and varied colors, and is ready to justify its existence. Darwin has termed it "The tyrant of the insect world."

The student of these creatures will not be long in concluding that they are ''One of man's best friends in the insect world," though in their own world they are indeed tyrants. Some years ago, and again only very recently, the author in studying them observed a dragon fly capture and completely devour the thorax and abdomen of a large wasp. What dexterity and valor it must display to conquer such an insect armed with such a formidable lancet fully competent to penetrate any portion of its delicate body! In the many years the author has been observing these beautiful creatures he has never seen a bird capture a single specimen; perhaps the birds indigenous to the San Antonio climate do not eat them.

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