1. What is marl?
2. What is the green scum
on ponds?
3. What are some peculiar
ities of marsh gas? •
4. How can mosquitoes be |
driven from ponds?
5. Name some birds that like
to nest in marshes?
6,.What are some mammals
that frequent marshes?
Answers to these questions j
in Monday's Star.
The World in a Puddle.
In fighting mosquitoes and the
dengue fever carried by them in
Miami, all the pools and standing
water, even peoples' rain barrels,
were cleared of the insects. How
ever. insects, continued to breed
somewhere and at last it was found
that they came from tiny pools of
water found in the axils of the leaves :
of the air plants, which are small
relatives of the pineapple, that perch i
on trees in tropical Florida. Rain
water collected there and the axils j
of the leaves being hollow and too j
thick for the water to soak through, j
the puddles formed a breeding place j
for mosquito wrigglers. Also many
amoeba and protozoa and algae were
found in these little pools and in
short they were crawling with 4 as
much microscopic life as any simi
lar quantity of ocean water.
Now what do you know about
that?
Answers to Yesterday’s Questions.
1. All parts of the potato plant)
except the tubers are poisonous.
2. The kernel of the peach pit is
poisonous . I
3. I’okeweed ceases to be edible j
when the first purple rises in the ;
stem.
4. The seeds of Jimson weed or j
stramonium are narcotic and pro- j
duce a trancelike derangement of the j
mind.
5. Poison Ivy, poison oak and I
poison sumac or dogw'ood, are pois- |
onous to touch.
