. Annual report. Entomological Society of Ontario; Insect pests; Insects. Fig. 37.—Adult flea (Pulex serraticeps) : a, egg, both much enlarged. (After Howard). ***>*&??<. Fig. 38.—a Female bed-bug {Ciinex lectularius)gorged with blood ; b same, from below—much enlarged (after Marlatt). sticky fly-paper,|with the sticky side out, around the legs of the janitor of the building and kept him walking for some hours up and down the floor of the infested room. Nearly, if not all, the fleas jumped on his ankles, as their invariable habit is, and were caught by the fly paper ! The Bed-bug (Fi
. Annual report. Entomological Society of Ontario; Insect pests; Insects. Fig. 37.—Adult flea (Pulex serraticeps) : a, egg, both much enlarged. (After Howard). ***>*&??<. Fig. 38.—a Female bed-bug {Ciinex lectularius)gorged with blood ; b same, from below—much enlarged (after Marlatt). sticky fly-paper,|with the sticky side out, around the legs of the janitor of the building and kept him walking for some hours up and down the floor of the infested room. Nearly, if not all, the fleas jumped on his ankles, as their invariable habit is, and were caught by the fly paper ! The Bed-bug (Fig. 38) is, unhappily, a well-known pest all the world over, and though usually confined to houses of the meaner sort where cleanliness is not regarded as a virtue, it frequently finds its way into well-ordered households, to the great dismay and horror of the inmates. It belongs to the order Hemiptera, which includes the true bugs, a race of insects provided with a piercing and sucking beak, and usually furnished when fully grown with two pairs of wings, the first]pair of which are thickened at the base like. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Entomological Society of Ontario; Ontario. Dept. of Agriculture. Toronto, The Society
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