Principal household insects of the United States . ritanicus, some claiming that the insectwas carnivorous. It has been satisfactorily proven through experimentby the writer that the insect is both herbivorous and predaceous. It ismost often found in cereals and in nuts, but may be occasionally takenin other materials. INSECTS AFFECTING CEREALS, ETC. 123 If personal experience and divisional records be any criterion, thisspecies excels all other grain feeders in its proclivity for obtruding itspresence in unexpected places. It is a most unwelcome guest at all times, its large size, both in the
Principal household insects of the United States . ritanicus, some claiming that the insectwas carnivorous. It has been satisfactorily proven through experimentby the writer that the insect is both herbivorous and predaceous. It ismost often found in cereals and in nuts, but may be occasionally takenin other materials. INSECTS AFFECTING CEREALS, ETC. 123 If personal experience and divisional records be any criterion, thisspecies excels all other grain feeders in its proclivity for obtruding itspresence in unexpected places. It is a most unwelcome guest at all times, its large size, both in the larval and adult stages, rendering itsappearance conspicuous, not to say alarming or disgusting, to mostpersons. In the pages of Insect Life we have noted its presence inmilk (Vol. I, p. 112), the evidence being that the milk had been adul-terated with some farinaceous material in which the beetle had lived aslarva. On pages 314 and 360 it is mentioned as having tunneled for aLong time through a flask of an insecticide white hellebore) which was.
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