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INDEX 



B 



Bacillus pestis, 334 

 Back-swimmers, 184 

 Bacterial wilt, 118, 197 

 Bag worms, 250-252 

 Bark beetles, 146-149 

 Basilarchia archippus, 292 

 Basilona imperialis, 281 

 Bean weevils, 128-130 

 Bedbug, 182 

 Bee bread, 365 



moth, 249 

 Bees, 360-367; 



bumble, 361 



carpenter, 361 



honey, 362 



leaf-cutter, 361 



solitary, 360 

 Beetles, 98-149 

 Beet-root louse, 205 

 Belostomidae, 185 

 Bembecidse, 354 

 Bilateral symmetry, 2 

 Bird lice, 161-163 

 Birds, 1; and insects, 35, 36 

 Biting lice, 161-163 

 Black-beetle, 78 



carpet beetle, 104 



flies, 315 



lady beetle, 135 



scale, 135, 216, 220 



swallow-tail butterfly, 298 



witch, 269 

 Blastophaga grossorum, 349 

 Blatella germanica, 76 

 Blatta orientalis, 78 

 Blattidae, 76-78 

 Blissus leucopterus, 174 

 Blister beetles, 135-136 

 Blood, 20 



vessels, 19 

 Blue-bottle flies, 324 

 Bombus, 361 

 Bombycidae, 255 

 Bombyx mori, 255 

 Book-lice, 159 

 Borax, 50 



Bordeaux mixture, 54 

 Bot flies, 318 

 Brain, 21 



Breathing organs, 17 

 Broad bean weevil, 129 



Bromius obscurus, 125 

 Brown-tail moth, 265, 296, 297 

 Bruchida;, 128-130 

 Bruchophagus funebris, 349 

 Bruchus chinensis, 129 



obtectus, 129 



pisorum, 128 



quadrimaculatus, 129 



rufimanus, 129 

 Bubonic plague, 334 

 Bud-worm (of corn), 120 

 Buffalo carpet beetle, 104 



gnats, 315 



Tree-hopper, 190 

 "Bug vs. bug," 220 

 Buhach, 53 

 Bumblebees, 361 

 Buprestidse, 105-107 

 Burning insects, 40 

 Butterflies, 290-299 



(and moths), 230-299 



Cabbage butterfly, imported, 293 



maggot, 327 

 Caddice flies, 226-229 

 Caeca, 16 

 California devastating grasshopper, 83 



grape-root worm, 125 



oak worm, 267 

 Caliroa cerasi, 341 

 Callosamia promethea, 283 

 Calosoma sycophanta, 100 

 Camel crickets, 86 

 Camnula pellucida, 84 

 Camphor thrips, 158 

 Canker worms, 253 

 Cantharidin, 136 

 Capsidae, 180 

 Carabidai, 100 

 Carbon disulfid, 55 

 Carnivorous diving beetles, 101 

 Carolina grasshopper, 84 

 Carpenter bees, 361 



moths, 234-236 



worm, 234 

 Carrion beetles, 103 

 Case-making clothes moth, 236 

 Caterpillar, 232 

 Catocalas, 269 

 Cecropia moth, 283 

 Cells, 13 



