. Bulletin. from the StateAgricultural Experiment Station, already located on the collegegrounds, but having no connection with it. Its officers are :— Horticulturist. Henry H. (tOodell,William P. Brooks,Samuel T. Maynard,Charles H. Fernald,Clakence D. Warner,William M. Shepardson,Herbert E. Woodbury,The cooperation and assistance of farmers, fruit-growers, horticul-turists, and all interested, directly or indirectly in agriculture, isearnestly requested. Communications may be addressed to theHatch Experiment Station, A
. Bulletin. from the StateAgricultural Experiment Station, already located on the collegegrounds, but having no connection with it. Its officers are :— Horticulturist. Henry H. (tOodell,William P. Brooks,Samuel T. Maynard,Charles H. Fernald,Clakence D. Warner,William M. Shepardson,Herbert E. Woodbury,The cooperation and assistance of farmers, fruit-growers, horticul-turists, and all interested, directly or indirectly in agriculture, isearnestly requested. Communications may be addressed to theHatch Experiment Station, Amherst, Mass. Division of Entomology. C. II. FEUNALD. HOUSEHOLD PESTS. Diiriug the past year many demands have been made on this Divi-sion for information concerning insects wliich are tronblesomo, tohouseiteepers. As similar inquiries are being made almost daily, as tothe habits and the best methods of destroying these pests, it seemsto be an economy of time to publish an account of them in the Fig. 1. Anthrenus scrophularia! Linn. «, larva; 6, skiuof a larva;All much enlarged. (After Eiley.) pupa; d, beetle. THE BUFFALO CARPET BEETLE. Anthrenus scrophularicp. Linn. This insect is exceedingly destructive to all kinds of woolen mater-ials and also to collections of insects and plants. The opinion thatit injures cotton or silk goods, lace curtains, etc., must be erroneous,for I have repeatedly put the larvae or young of this beetle into bot- ties with various substances for them to feed upon, and when fur-nished with cotton and wool mixed goods, they invariably ate thewoolen fibres, leaving the cotton intact; but when I gave them onlycotton, silk, or pieces of newspaper, they as invariably died withouteating any of these substances. The injuries reported to have beendone to silk, lace curtains, etc., must have been done by some otherinsect. So far as my observations extend, the liuffalo beetles and theirlarvae are much more abundant in rooms on the second and thir
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