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large black ants are simply visitors from 

 casionally in search of food. The little 

 however, lives in large nests or colonies in 

 floors. If the nests can be found, they 

 otherwise the ants must be trapped with 

 sponges containing sweetened water; the 

 into boiling water and then " set " again, 

 ing method has been used in California to 



outside that enter oc- 

 red ant (Fig. 35, C), 

 the walls or under the 

 should be destroyed, 

 pieces of meat or with 

 latter can be dropped 

 Recently an interest- 

 destroy the Argentine 



Fig. 36. — Insects of the household. 



A, cheese skipper; B, meal worm; C, beetle into which meal worm develops. 



(After Chittenden.) 



ant. Pans of slow-acting poison were set out. The ants not 

 only fed on this themselves, but carried it to their young, and, 

 as a result, entire colonies were exterminated. 



Cheese Skipper. — Articles of food are also rendered unfit 

 to eat by insects which burrow into them. The cheese skipper 

 (Fig. 36, A) breeds in soft cheese and the fatty parts of hams 

 and bacon. The adults are minute, grayish flies, and the larvae 

 are maggots. Thorough cleaning, followed by fumigation, will 

 destroy these insects. 



