THE COMMON BEDBUG 



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descriptive one. In the South, at least in Mississippi 

 and parts of Texas, it is invariably called the "chinch." 

 In New York they are often called "redcoats," while in 

 Baltimore they are given the aristocratic and, at the same 

 time, rather descriptive name "mahogany flat." An old 

 English name for it was "wall louse." 



DESCRIPTION OF THE BED 



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The bedbug is a member of a v 

 sects known as Hemiptera. The 

 squash bugs are familiar 

 members of this group 

 and near relatives of 

 the bedbug. The stink 

 bugs, squash bugs, and 

 bedbugs have certain 

 glands in the body 

 that secrete an oily, 

 volatile, and ill-smelling 

 fluid. No doubt, in the 

 stink bugs, squash bugs, 

 and others this fluid 

 serves as a means of 

 protection and oftentinn 

 by their enemies, the 

 the bedbug there is 

 as a protective weap 

 from some remote ar 

 presence of the be 



"buggy" odor. , with egg-case (XI); trap for cockroaches; 



The bedbug h , bedbug (X 8), below. 



