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Re Prof. Percy Groom's letter in NATURE (January 22, p. 271), I may mention that in Ceylon the papaw-tree gives no immunity against mosquitoes. In my garden here we usually take our afternoon tea under the shade of an old and much-branched example of the common papaw (Carica papaia), but far from being protected from mosquito bites in that situation, we are always terribly molested by the small striped mosquito (Stegomyia scutellaris). The stem of this tree is also haunted by various spiders and flies. I have not sufficiently studied the tree during the sunny part of the day to say whether flies settle on the leaves or not, but I propose, to pay attention to this question shortly.
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GREEN, E. Papaw-Trees and Mosquitoes. Nature 67, 487 (1903). https://doi.org/10.1038/067487b0
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