Principal household insects of the United States . ost numer-ous in the hottest days in Summer. It is at night they commit their depredations,and bite people in their beds, especially childrens fingers that are greasy. They layinnumerable eggs, creeping into the holes of old walls and rubbish, where theylie torpid all the Winter. Some have wings, and others are without—perhaps ofdifferent Sexes. (Catesby: Nat. Hist. Carolina, 1748, Vol. II, p. 10.) COCKROACHES AND HOUSE ANTS. ill larger than any of the other domestic species, and it is \ighi brown incolor, the wings being unusually long, power
Principal household insects of the United States . ost numer-ous in the hottest days in Summer. It is at night they commit their depredations,and bite people in their beds, especially childrens fingers that are greasy. They layinnumerable eggs, creeping into the holes of old walls and rubbish, where theylie torpid all the Winter. Some have wings, and others are without—perhaps ofdifferent Sexes. (Catesby: Nat. Hist. Carolina, 1748, Vol. II, p. 10.) COCKROACHES AND HOUSE ANTS. ill larger than any of the other domestic species, and it is \ighi brown incolor, the wings being unusually long, powerful, and well developed in both sexes. The Australian roach (Periplaneta australasiw) resembles very closelythe last species, but differs strikingly in the brighter and more defi-nitely limited yellow band on the prothorax and in the yellow dash onthe sides of the upper wings (see fig. 40). In the United states it isthe most abundant and troublesome species in Florida and some of theother Southern States. It is already practically V /? m \
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