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INSECTS 



Allied in appearance but very much smaller, come 

 the various species of flour and grain beetles; the larvae, 

 very slender whitish grubs, not much over an eighth of 

 an inch in length, the adults equally slender, flattened 

 brown beetles, less than that length, or scarcely attain- 

 ing it. They accumulate wherever meal or grain prod- 

 ucts of any kind are kept open and allowed to stand for 

 any length of time. In pantries or closets where jars or 



-The confused flour beetle, Tribolimn confusum: a, adult; b, larva; 



receptacles are never entirely cleaned out before re- 

 plenishing, they find their best opportunity for multi- 

 plying, and the best method of checking them lies, in 

 consequence, in cleaning out thoroughly every recep- 

 tacle for such products before putting in a new supply. 

 In peas, beans, lentils and the like, "weevils" often 

 make their appearance, and that is manifested when in 

 such seeds one or more round holes about one-sixteenth 

 of an inch in diameter may be noted. Now while, ordi- 

 narily, these insects breed outdoors, and simply pass the 

 winter in the seeds that were attacked in the field ; yet 



