SPECIAL P1U:)J]LKMS OF INSECT CONTROL LV") 



burrowing flea (chiefly tropical) — Sarcoj)si/lla penetrans ; lien flea (l)ur- 

 rows into tlie eyelids of fowls), Southern states — Xestops//lla f/allinarfa. 



'Jliis grou[) Wiis fonuerly classi'd willi the diptcra but is 

 now usually given as an order l)y itself, the SiphoiKfjitcrd 

 (^sij)hon, '' a sueking tube "" ; <^ '' without'' ; jttcron, '' wing"" — 

 '' wingless bloodsuekers"). 



White Axts : Termites — Termes Jlavipes. These are not ants, hut 

 belong to another order, the Isoptera (isos, "equal"; ptfron, "wing"). 

 Destructive to wood of buildings and furniture and even to living trees. 



House Ants : Red ant — Monomorium pharaonis ; little Idack ant — 

 Monomorium minnfiim: ])avenumt ant — Trtrainonuin caespittiin. 



Beetles: Jvanler beetle — Dermestes lan/drius ; drug-store l)eetle — 

 sifrodi'epa panicea; meal worms — Tenehrio molitor and T. ohscurus; 

 L)dian-meal moth — Plodia interpirnctella. 



T\\Q above are only a few of the more important household 

 insect pests. i\Luiy others may be found ])y searching the 

 house, and can be identified, if they present interesting local 

 problems, by reference to the books mentioned at the end of 

 this chapter. The fact that no lieadway is made in the fight 

 with these enemies is due chiefly to lack of organized coopera- 

 tion. One family exterminates them and is reinfested from a 

 neiuhbor who does the Avork at some other time. 



Insects Injurious to Vegetation 



Orciiard Pests: Codling moth — Carpocapsn pomonella; tent cater- 

 pillars (apple-tree) — Clisiocampa americonn : fall wel >W( »nu — Ifi/phantrin 

 cunea; cankerworms (sjtring — Paleacrita ventata\ fall — Aiiisoptt-nix 

 pometaria) ; yellow woolly bear — Sj)ilosonin rirf/inica-, curculio beetles, 

 w^eevils (apple — Ant/iofionms <ju<n/ri(/ihbus ; }>lum — Conofnic/it las iiinu- 

 ])har\ quince — Conotrarhelus cmlnuji; grape — Craponiua infifjualls; 

 borer beetles ; round-headed apple-tree — Saperda Candida; flat-headed 

 apple-tree — Chnjsohothris femorata (also attacks the plum); i)ear-blight 

 V)eetle — Xiilehnrua pyri', pear-tree borer — yl-Jf/eria pyri;, cherry-tree borer 

 — Dicerca dicarirata; peach-tree borer — Sa}ininoid('a exifiosa; apple-twig 

 borer — Amphicerua hicaudalus)] s)»hinx moths ("humming-bird" moth) 

 (pbim — Sjdiinx drupiferarum ; green grapevine — Aniptlvpluuja mi/ron); 



