110 HOUSEHOLD INSECTS 



(Fig. 35). The under lip has become greatly lengthened 



and the edges rolled upward until they nearly meet on 



top, thus forming almost a closed tube that constitutes 



the so-called beak. Inside this tube are four long, 



slender, thread-like organs that move over each other 



' ''jfif, alternating motion that enables them to 



*ate the flesh and set the blood free. The 



a tube to conduct the blood to the 



THE bedbug is apj, 



records seem "to show bedbug is flat and wide (Plate II), a 

 bedfellow as long as h, wonderfully well to the places it has 

 Very likely the bedbug * T he cracks and crevices of bed- 

 long before such compart-^ protective retreats for an insect 

 ments as beds were ever tMoreover, the bedbug has no large 

 Romans knew it well and g an( j encumber its retreat. It is 

 Pliny wrote regarding its mec rs of the bedbug had wings but 

 recommended it for snake bit, flightless life of so many ages 



Seven bedbugs mingled with become lost through disuse. 

 while four were sufficient for >f wingS) for they have not 

 Dictionary tells us that the s left of the wings are s i mp i y 

 " hysterical suffocation." It is sfc nd it is f ortunat e that they 

 of this country, inhabitants used with which to flv> for then 

 and ague. Perhaps they had this con t ro l. 

 the pests in their houses. 



It has gone with man wherever 

 instincts have led him, and it came t rHE BEDfi UG 

 with the early colonists. Kami re 3eperj f or good nouse _ 

 abundant among the English colonies ^ s ^. s on ^ ne j r beds to 

 was unknown among the Indians. -j sned m ne r house. 



NAMES BY WHICH IT IS KNC. 



^t in by the washer- 



The general name bedbug is given to th jen bedbugs come 

 the United States and the name is a most . 

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