Education Department Bulletin 



Published fortnightly by the University of the State of New York 



Entered as second-class matter June 24, 1908, at the Post Office at Albany, N. Y., under 



the act of July 16, 1894 



No. 465 



ALBANY, N. Y. 



February 15, 1910 



New York State Museum 



John M. Clarke, Director 

 Ephraim Porter Felt, State Entomologist 



Museum Bulletin 136 



CONTROL OF FLIES 



AND 



OTHER HOUSEHOLD INSECTS 



EPHRAIM PORTER FELT Sc.D. 



page 



Introduction 5 



Disease carriers 6 



Typhoid or house fly 6 



Fruit flies 16 



Malarial mosquito 17 



Yellow fever mosquito 20 



Bedbug 20 



Annoying forms 22 



Cluster fly 22 



Wasps and hornets 2^ 



House or rain barrel mosquito. . 23 



Salt marsh mosquito 24 



House fleas 26 



Bedbug hunter 27 



House centipede 28 



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Fabric pests 28 



Clothes moths 28 



Carpet beetles 30 



Silver fish, bristle tail or fish moth ZZ 



Book louse Z2i 



White ants 34 



Crickets 35 



Food pests 35 



House ants 35 



Cockroaches 37 



Larder beetle 40 



Cheese skipper 40 



Cereal and seed pests 41 



Fumigation with hydrocyanic acid 



gas 48 



Index 51 



