370 PJESTS OF THE HOUSEHOLD AND STORED PRODUCTS 



The Cigarette Beetle (Lasioderma serricorne Fab.) 

 Stored tobacco, and various other stored products, often become 

 infested with this pest. The larvae is a white, fleshy, tiny grub. The 

 adult is one sixteenth of an inch long, brownish, its head bent back 



under its thorax. The 

 larvae feed here and there 

 through their food sub- 

 stance, and the beetles 

 make small round holes in 







Fig. 592. — Work and larva of the Cigarette 

 Beetle. Enlarged. Original. 



Fig. 593. — The Cigarette 

 Beetle. Adult, enlarged and 

 natural size. Original. 



emerging. There are several generations annually under suitable 

 conditions. Warehouses that have become infested should be thor- 

 oughly cleane<:l up, and then fumigated with carbon bisulphide or 

 hydrocj^anic acid gas. 



