Songs

Ronald Ross had a habit of calling the different types of mosquitoes he was dissecting ‘the grey ones’ or ‘the brindled ones’ instead of using their ‘official’ scientific names. When he found the Anopheles mosquito that was guilty of the malaria transmission, he described it as being ‘dapple winged’.

Dapple wing dapple wing dapple wing
You bite at night
Dapple wing dapple wing
Your eggs shaped like boats
Dapple wing dapple wing
Lie together in triangles
Dapple wing dapple wing
Your larvae floating on the water like sticks