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dooryard filth. One fly may deposit as many as 120 eggs, and 

 under favorable conditions but 10 days are required to complete 

 the life cycle. 



Treatment : exclude with screens. As it breeds in manure and 

 garbage, keeping this material cleaned up or inaccessible to flies 

 will reduce their numbers. 



69 Bed bug (Acanthia lectularia). A flattened, 

 reddish, wingless insect about ^ inch long frequenting houses, 

 specially those affording numerous cracks where it can find shel- 

 ter and where uncleanliness prevails. This disgusting intruder 



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Fig. 61 Bed bug: a and h adult females gorged with blood, upper and under surfaces c, d, 

 structural details (after Marlatt, U. S dep't agr., dlv. ent., bull. 4, n. s.) 



requires about seven weeks to complete its life cycle. It is able 

 to exist for long periods without food. 



Treatment: apply benzin, kerosene, or other petroleum oil to 

 crevices in infested beds. Corrosive sublimate may be used in 

 same manner. Fumigation with sulfur is valuable wherever 

 possible. 



70 Kissing bug : masked bed bug hunter (Opsicoetus per- 

 son a t u s ) . A brownish or black insect about f inch long. 

 It is attracted by lights, and its young, which conceals itself by a 

 covering of lint, etc. is said to have a partiality for bed bugs. 



