82 liuiiEAU OF Takmeus' Institutes. 



Household Insects. 



63 House fly (Mtisca domestica). Easily recognized as the commoa fly 

 around houses. 



Ti-eatment: exclude with screens. As it breeds in manure and garbage, 

 keeping this material cleaned up or inaccessible to flies will reduce their 

 numbers. 



G4 Bed bug (Acaiithia IcctuJaria). A flattened, reddish insect about V4, 

 inch long frequenting houses, specially those affording numerous craclis 

 where it can find shelter and where uncleanliness prevails. 



Treatment: apply benzine, kerosene or other petroleum oil to crevices 

 in infested beds. Corrosive sublimate may be used in same manner. 

 Fumigation with sulphur is valuable wherever possible. 



65 Kissing bug: masked bed bug hunter {Opsicoetus personatus). A 

 brownish or black insect about % inch long. It is attracted by lights, 

 and its young, which conceals itself by a covering of lint, etc., is said to 

 have a partiality for bed bugs. Not usually harmful, though it can inflict 

 a severe bite or " sting." 



Treatment: screens should exclude It most efCectually. 



66 Buffalo carpet beetle (Anthrenus scrophularice). Larvae easily recog- 

 nized by their shaggy appearance, being provided with coarse bristles 

 along the sides and at the posterior extremity of the body. The beetles 

 are about Vs inch long, black, marked with white and a red line widening 

 into three projections, down the middle of the back. 



Treatment: use rugs or matting in place of carpets whenever possible. 

 Infested carpets should be taken up and sprayed with benzine and the 

 cracks in floors should be filled with plaster of paris before relaying the 

 carpet. 



67 Black carpet beetle (Attagenus piceus). Light brown, cyllndric larva 

 with a long " tail " of slender hairs. The adult Is a small, oval, black 

 beetle about Vs inch long. This species has a decided taste for feathers. 



Treatment: Same as for the preceding. 



68 Little red ant (Monomorium pJiaraonis). The common yellowish red 

 ant about 3-16 inch long that frequents houses in such numbers at times. 



Treatment: destroy colony with carbon bisulfid when possible. Attract 

 to sponge filled with sweetened water and kill the collected ants by drop- 

 ping them in hot water. 



69 Bacon beetle {Dermestes lardarius). Dark brownish beetle about 5-16 

 Inch long with yellowish band on wing covers. Larva brown, hairy, about 

 % inch long. Both adult and larva attack bacon, meat, etc. 



Treatment: cleanliness and excluding insects from the food. 



