Controlling mosquitoes in Missouri

Abstract

"Mosquitoes constitute the greatest threat to the health and well-being of man of all the various harmful groups of insects. This is especially true in the warm, rainy parts of the world where mosquitoes are most numerous. They are a menace to health, due to their ability to spread various important diseases of man and animals, and they seriously affect his comfort and his well-being, even closing large areas in the tropics and in other parts of the world to human habitation and development. Our soldiers, especially in the tropics, are facing the mosquito menace as they have never faced it before, and the Government is sparing no effort to protect them. Recognizing the importance of the mosquito menace, hundreds of trained entomologists have been called into the army to assist with the control of mosquitoes around the camps and war training and production centers. In this war no other insect is being given so much attention as the mosquito."--Page 1.