BED-BUGS AND FLOWER-BUGS. mil 
swellings appear wherever a bug has inserted his beak. If a 
light is suddenly ignited, the bugs run away as quickly as they 
can to their hiding-places. A glance at the ceiling of the occu- 
pied rooms will reveal many bugs, who have crawled there with 
the intenticn of falling down upon the sleeper. Though always 
hungry and ready to imbibe blood, bed-bugs can exist for a long 
time, even for a year, without any food. Prof. Leunis kept a 
female bed-bug in an empty paper-box for six months; when the 
box was opened not only the living female was found, but she 
was surrounded by numerous young bugs, which, like the mother, 
were white and transparent as glass. 
Fic. 4.2.—Acanthia hirundinis Senyns. Fic, 43.—Acanthia hirundinis Senyns. 
Immature form. Original. Adult. Original. 
We have a large number of remedies against this insect. 
Cleanliness is of course the best preventive. Yet with all care 
bed-bugs can and will enter houses, because they are so readily 
carried with trunks, etc., from infested places, and if they once 
find a home, they are on account of their form, which is well 
adapted for hiding, and their capacity for fasting, not readily 
driven away. The free use of benzine, or of kerosene, sprayed 
with a hand atomizer into all suspected cracks, will kill all insects, 
including the eggs, with which the fluid actually comes in contact. 
This spraying has to be repeated from time to time, and if care- 
fully and thoroughly done, the bed-bugs have no chance to exist 
