Principal household insects of the United States . 35 as a means of protection, in the conditions under which the bedbuglives, are kept away from it, and the roach, which will be shown laterto feed on bedbugs, is evidently not deterred by the odor, while the com-mon house ant, which will also attack the bedbug, seems not to find thisodor disagreeable. The bedbug is thoroughly nocturnal in habit and displays a certaindegree of wariness and caution, or intelligence, in its efforts at con-cealment during the day. It thrives particularly in filthy apartmentsand in old houses which are full of crac
Principal household insects of the United States . 35 as a means of protection, in the conditions under which the bedbuglives, are kept away from it, and the roach, which will be shown laterto feed on bedbugs, is evidently not deterred by the odor, while the com-mon house ant, which will also attack the bedbug, seems not to find thisodor disagreeable. The bedbug is thoroughly nocturnal in habit and displays a certaindegree of wariness and caution, or intelligence, in its efforts at con-cealment during the day. It thrives particularly in filthy apartmentsand in old houses which are full of cracks and crevices in which it canconceal itself beyond easy reach. It usually leaves the bed at theapproach of daylight to go into concealment either in cracks in thebedstead, if it be one of the old wooden variety, or behind wainscoting,or under loose wall paper, where it manifests its gregarious habit by col-lecting in masses together. The old-fashioned heavy wooden bedsteadsare especially favorable for the concealment and multiplication of this.
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