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dealt with according to the conditions as they exist in 

 each individual case. 



Quite a different series of species attack our stored 

 grains and other vegetable products. The largest and 

 most conspicuous of these are the meal worms — long, 

 vellowish, slender worm-like grvibs with a brown head 



e 



Fk;. 1 10. — a. the meal worm; b. pupa; c. adult beetle, Tcncbrio molitor; d, its egg; 

 e, antenna. 



and anal segment, reaching the length of an inch or 

 more. These live in meal of all kinds and are more 

 common in the barn and stable than in the house 

 though not unknown there by any means. The parents 

 are oblong flattened black beetles nearly three-quarters 

 of an inch in length, and are usually found in the same 

 places as the larva?. Incidentally these meal w^orms 

 are great favorites with our feathered friends, and they 

 are raised in great quantities as food for cage birds of 

 various descriptions. 



