INSECT INTRUDERS. 



and well-merited punishment. Serious as 

 are its crimes, however, these are not 

 amongst them. The insect is really 

 partial to saccharine matters, and it is to 

 get at the gummy materials and glaze 

 used in the binding of books and the 

 framing of pictures that the fish insect 

 commits the great damage he is capable 

 of doing. Its mouth parts are not adapted 

 to enable it to touch shiny paper, but it 

 will riddle tissue paper and such soft 

 materials as muslin and tulle. The in- 

 sect's home is in dusty corners of rooms 

 or on the top of dusty rafters, etc. Clean- 

 liness in the bungalow, therefore, means 

 reducing the danger from fish insects 

 to a minimum. 



Another common house insect is the 

 world famed and much feared (by our lady 

 friends at any rate) Cockroach, a member 

 of which family is our common so-called 

 ' black beetle ' of the English kitchen and 

 other belowstair apartments. Known 

 to every housewife and cook is the 

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