Education Department Bulletin 



Published fortnightly by the University of the State of New York 



Entered as second-class matter June 24, i;c8, at the Post Office at Albany, N. Y., under 



the aci of July 16, 1894 



No. 446 



ALBANY, N. Y. 



May I, 1909 



NeAv York State Museum 



John M. Clarke, Director 

 Ephraim Porter Felt, State Entomologist 



Museum bulletin 129 



CONTROL OF HOUSEHOLD INSECTS 



BY 



EPHRAIM PORTER FELT D.Sc. 



PAGE 



Introduction 5 



Disease carriers 7 



Typhoid or house fly 7 



Fruit flies il 



Malarial mosquito 12 



Yellow fever mosquito 15 



Annoying forms 15 



Cluster fly 15 



Wasps and hornets 16 



House or rain barrel mosquito. . 16 



Salt marsh mosquito 17 



House fleas 19 



Bedbug 20 



Bedbug hunter 22 



House centipede 23 



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Fabric pests 23 



Clothes moths 2;^ 



Carpet beetles 25 



Silver fish, bristle tail or fish moth 28 



Book louse 28 



White ants 29 



Crickets 30 



Food pe?ts 30 



House ants 30 



Cockroaches 32 



Larder beetle 35 



Cheese skipper 35 



Cereal and seed pests 36 



Fumigation with hydrocyanic acid 

 gas 42 



Index 45 



