154 CIVIC BIOLOGY 



Most insects in the following lists belong to the above 

 orders. Each represents a problem of interest to the com- 

 munity and home, and the time will come when each citizen 

 must realize that he has no moral right to breed pests which 

 cause annoyance and damage to his neighbors. In reading 

 the lists review what you have learned of each in previous 

 years, especially running over the life history. 



It is convenient also to classify insects according to their 

 point of attack or their food plants ; as, insects of the house- 

 hold, garden, field, forest ; insects of the apple, grape, peach, 

 etc. Many books for practical horticulturists and the agricul- 

 tural bulletins treat them this way. 



Insects of the Household 



Flies : House fly, typkoid fly, or filth fly — Musca domestica ; small 

 house fly — Homalomyia canicularia', stable fly — Stomoxys calcitrans ; 

 cluster fly — PoUenia rudis ; bluebottle fly or blowfly — Ccdliplwra ery- 

 throcephala; green-bottle fly — LucUia ccesar; fruit fly — DrosopMla ciin- 

 pdophUia\ cheese or ham skipper — PiophUa casei. 



Mosquitoes : Common domestic species, in rain barrels and stag- 

 nant pools everywhere — Culex pipiens ; malarial mosquitoes — A nopheles 

 macuUpennis, punctipennis, and crucians ; and the yellow-fever mosquito, 

 throughout the South and wherever it is found breeding — Aedes calopus. 



Clothes Moths: Case-making clothes moth — Tinea j)Mionella\ 

 Southern clothes moth — Tineola hisselUella ; tapestry moth — Tricliophaga 

 tapetzella\ carpet beetle — Anthrenus scrophularioe ] black carpet beetle 

 — Attagenus piceus. 



House Crickets — GryJIus domesticus and G. assimilis. 



Roaches: American cockroach — Periplaneta americana; oriental 

 cockroach — Periplaneta orientalis ; German roach, Croton bug — Ectohia 

 germanica. 



Bedbug : Common bedbug — Acanthia lectularia ; blood-sucking cone- 

 nose — ConorJdnus sanguisuga ; kissing bug — Opsiccetus personatus 



Lice : Head louse — Pediculus capitis ; body louse — Pediculus 

 vestimenti. 



Fleas : Human flea — Pulex irritans\ cat and dog flea — Ctenoceph- 

 aJus canis ; rat fleas — Ceratophillus fasciatus and Pulex cheopis ; chigoe, 



