. Annual report of the Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station, Ithaca, Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station; Agriculture -- New York (State). Insect Pests of House and Garden. 653 surroundings of the home to prevent the breeding of these dangerous menaces to health. There are many other kinds of insects which sometimes enter our homes, and either annoy us or destroy our belongings, but they are of a minor importance as compared with the ones mentioned above. It is only at rare intervals that New York housewives have occasion to complain of their ravages and need
. Annual report of the Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station, Ithaca, Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station; Agriculture -- New York (State). Insect Pests of House and Garden. 653 surroundings of the home to prevent the breeding of these dangerous menaces to health. There are many other kinds of insects which sometimes enter our homes, and either annoy us or destroy our belongings, but they are of a minor importance as compared with the ones mentioned above. It is only at rare intervals that New York housewives have occasion to complain of their ravages and need to seek information regarding them. Although annoyed almost constantly during the summer months by household insect pests, housewives, as a rule, are not familiar with their life-stories and breeding I. Clothes-Moths. Clothes-moths are cosmopolitan household pests and were well known to the ancients. More than one hundred and fifty years ago they were abundant in this country, and are yearly a constant menace to all kinds of woolen goods or furs in practically every home in the land. The tiny, yellowish moths are often dislodged by the housewife when infested garments are disturbed after lying unused for a considerable time. The moths are harmless, as they can not eat, but they should be killed whenever found, because they lay the eggs from which develop the little caterpillars that do all the injury. There are three kinds of clothds-moths common in this country, but the New York house- wife is usually troubled only with the case-making clothes-moth (Tinea pellionella), shown in Fig. 21. The little caterpillars(6 in Fig. 21) of this moth feed mostly on woolens and carpets and are specially destructive to furs and feathers. The caterpillar is always enclosed in a jacket (c in Fig. 21), which it makes from small particles of wool fastened together with silk. By placing the caterpillars on different colored cloths from time to time, one can see the interesting way in whi
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