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HOUSEHOLD AO S I H E D - F H D U C ! 
INSECTS 
TERMITES ( Iteticulit ernes stop.) 
J, J. Davis (June 24) r The usual numerous reports of ter- 
mites were received during the past month. 
17. T. Flint (June): Many reports of white-ant swarms in 
houses have "been received during the past month. 
M. H. Swenk (May 15 - June 15): Infestations of buildings 
with termites, K. tibialis Dnks., were reported from Gage 
County and from Clay during the period here covered. In the 
former case a house and in the latter a wooden granary were 
infested. 
ANTS (Fornicidae) 
C. C. Compton (May 27): Ants, Taninnma sessile Say, are 
very abundant and annoying in the business district of Syca- 
more. Although they are most troublesome in grocery and 
fruit stores practically every business establishment in Syc- 
amore is infested. 
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M. II. Sweiiil - (ikiy 15 -' Juii'cr-15) : • '-Thorb -vfere' many' complaints 
of trouble with ants of various kinds during the period cov- 
ered. These included carpenter ants, Camoonotus herculeanus 
p enn sy 1 v an i c us DeG., working in trees in eastern Nebraska, 
the large red ant Formica rufa L., forming nests in yards in 
northeastern Nebraska, the mound-building ant, Fogonomyrmex 
occidentalis Cress.,; , doing the same thing in western Nebraska, 
and the usual house and lawn ants proving injurious in houses 
and flower gardens. 
GOLDEN POLISTES ( Polistes aurifer Sauss.) 
C. D. Lebert (June 24): Numerous complaints have been re- 
ceived regarding nesting F>_ aurifer in eaves and roofs of 
houses, where they greatly annoy the occupants. 
A FTINID ( Xyletinu s meltatus Harr. ) 
II. Dietrich (June 22): A ptinid beetle, X. peltatus , is ex- 
tremely abundant in the pine beams, floor, and walls of a 
house at New Augusta. This house had been rebuilt and stuc- 
coed to the ground five years ago. The timbers having blue- 
stain had many more exit holes than sound timbers. Needless 
to add, ternites also had made a good start. 
