Education Department Bulletin 



Published fortnightly by the University of the State of New York 



Entered as second-class matter June 24, ico8, at the Post Office at Albany, N. Y., under 



the act of July 16, 1894 



No. 446 



ALBANY, N. Y. 



May 1, 1909 



New York State Museum 



John M. Clarke, Director 

 Ephraim Porter Felt, State Entomologist 



Museum bulletin 129 



CONTROL OF HOUSEHOLD INSECTS 



BY 



EPHRAIM PORTER FELT D.S. 



PAGE 



Introduction 5 



Disease carrier? 7 



Typhoid or house fly 7 



Fruit flies . 11 



Malarial mosquito 12 



Yellow fever mosquito... 15 



Annoying forms 15 



Cluster fly 15 



Wasps and hornets .« 16 



House or rain barrel mosquito. . 16 



Salt marsh mosquito 17 



House fleas 19 



Bedbug 20 



Bedbug hunter 22 



House centipede 23 



PAGE 



Fabric pests 23 



Clothes moths 23 



Carpet beetles 25 



Silver fish; bristle tail or fish moth 28 



Book louse 28 



White ants 29 



Crickets 30 



Food pests 30 



House ants 30 



Cockroaches 32 



Larder beetle 35 



Cheese skipper 35 



Cereal and seed pests 36 



Fumigation with hydrocyanic acid 



gas 42 



Index 45 



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UNIVERSITY OF THE STATE OF NEW 

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