. Common injurious insects of Kansas. Insect pests; Insects. NOXIOUS INSECTS OF THE HOUSEHOLD. Ill about three-sixteenths of an inch long, white, soft-bodied, with eight pairs of legs, and continues its destructive attacks during the summer and fall. Late in the fall it closes the ends of its. Fig. 61. Clothbs-moth; a, adult; b, case enclosing larva; c, pupa; cl, larva. ( The natural lengths of larva and pupa approximate the line at the side of the 6, the case. case, and lies torpid through the winter. In spring it pupates within the case, and issues as the adult moth in May or later. The inse
. Common injurious insects of Kansas. Insect pests; Insects. NOXIOUS INSECTS OF THE HOUSEHOLD. Ill about three-sixteenths of an inch long, white, soft-bodied, with eight pairs of legs, and continues its destructive attacks during the summer and fall. Late in the fall it closes the ends of its. Fig. 61. Clothbs-moth; a, adult; b, case enclosing larva; c, pupa; cl, larva. ( The natural lengths of larva and pupa approximate the line at the side of the 6, the case. case, and lies torpid through the winter. In spring it pupates within the case, and issues as the adult moth in May or later. The insect in all of its stages is easily distinguished from the •'buffalo moth," which as an adult is a beetle, and which as a larva does not live within a case. Remedies.—Dr. Riley's suggestions for combating this house- hold pest are as follows: During the latter part of May, or early in June, a vigorous campaign should be entered upon. All carpets, cloth-covered furniture, furs and rugs should be thoroughly shaken and aired, and, if possible, exposed to sunlight as long as practicable. If the house is badly infested, or if any particular article is supposed to be badly infested, a free use of benzine, in the manner mentioned in my last article [as in case of Buffalo Beetle, see page 110], will be advisable. All floor cracks and dark closets should be sprayed with this substance. Too much pains cannot be taken to destroy every moth and every egg and every newly-hatched larva, for immunity for the rest of the year depends largely, almost entirely, upon the thoroughness with which the work of extermination is carried on at this time. The benzine spray will kill the insect in every stage, and it is one of the few substances which will destroy the egg. I would, however, repeat the caution as to its inflammability. No light should be brought into a room in which it has been used until after a thorough airing, and until the odor is al- most dissipated. The proper packing away of
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