Principal household insects of the United States . ating of white•wash inside and out. The pests abandoned the premises and were nolonger troublesome. This remedy will be worth trying, especially incellars and basement rooms, where there is likelihood of dampness andconsequent abundance of these insects. Fiq. 37.—Spring-tail [Lepidocyrtus americanus), u. lateral view of fe-male; b, foot of snne. c, tip of spring-tail; <L body scale; t\ upper lip or labium;/, mandible or jaws; flower jaws and lower lip ormaxilbeand labium—(original). CHAPTER VI. COCKROACHES AND HOUSE ANTS. By C. L. Marlatt.
Principal household insects of the United States . ating of white•wash inside and out. The pests abandoned the premises and were nolonger troublesome. This remedy will be worth trying, especially incellars and basement rooms, where there is likelihood of dampness andconsequent abundance of these insects. Fiq. 37.—Spring-tail [Lepidocyrtus americanus), u. lateral view of fe-male; b, foot of snne. c, tip of spring-tail; <L body scale; t\ upper lip or labium;/, mandible or jaws; flower jaws and lower lip ormaxilbeand labium—(original). CHAPTER VI. COCKROACHES AND HOUSE ANTS. By C. L. Marlatt. COCKROACHES. (Periplaneta americana et ah) Roadies are among the commonest and most offensive of the insectswhich, frequent human habitations. They were well known to theancients, who called them lucifuga, from their habit of always shunningthe light. The common English name for them, or, more properly, forthe common domestic English species, is black beetle. In America tbis name has not been adopted to any extent for this insect, which was. FlQ 38.—The American roach (Periplaneta americana): a, view from above; b. from beneath—bothenlarged one-third (original). early introduced here, and the term roach,or cockroach, is tbecommon appellation of all the domestic species. The little Germanroach, however, is very generally known as the Croton bug, from itsearly association with the Croton waterworks system in New York popular designations of this insect in Germany illustrate in an COCKROACHES AND HOUSE ANTS. 85 amusing way both sectional and racial prejudices. In north Germanythese roaches are known as Schwaben^a oame which applies f theinhabitants of south Germany, and i he Latter Beet ion •* even up* by call-ing them Preussen,after the north Germans. In east Germany theyare called Russen, and in west Germany Franzosen, the two latterappellations indicating a certain national antipathy to rival countriesas well as a fanciful idea as to origin. Si ill other na
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