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REPORT OF THE STATE ENTOMOLOGIST 1901 S51 
107 Confused flour beetle, Tribolium confusum Duy. 
Principal food: Farinaceous preparations. 
Treatment: Fumigate infested preparations with carbon 
bisulfid. 
Chief accessible articles: Chittenden, F. H. U.S. dep’t agric. 
Yearbook. 794. p. 288-89; —_- —— div. ent. Bul. 4. ’96. p. 
113-15. 
108 Cigarette beetle, Lasioderma testaceum -Duft. 
Principal food: tobacco preparations. 
Treatment: Fumigate infested substances with carbon 
bisulfid, exclude the insects by using tight packages. 
Chief accessible article: Chittenden, F. H. U. S. dep’t agrie. 
diy. ent. Bul. 4. n.s.’96.  p. 126-27. 
BENEFICIAL INSECTS (109-63) 
Pollen-carriers 
These insects perform a most important function, because 
many fruit trees depend very largely on insects for the carrying 
of pollen from flower to flower. : 
109 Honey bee, Apis mellifica Linn. This insect is 
exceedingly valuable as a pollenizer of plants as well as a pro- 
ducer of honey. 
Bumblebees, Bombus 
This genus is represented by a number of species, all valuable 
as pollen-carriers. : 
MmMirsbombus fervidus Fabr. 
mis pennsylvanicus DeG. 
Me Bee terricola Kirby 
iiss ternarius Say 
114 B. vagans Smith 
115 B. virginicus. Oliv. 
16 Melissodes obliqua Say 
117 M. perplexa Cress. 
