The entomologist's text book : an introduction to the natural history, structure, physiology and classification of insects, including the Crustacea and Arachnida . Gasteropliilus equi. 1 - a Gasterophilus haeraorrhoidalis. fleas of different species, ticks, gadflies, forest flies, andespecially the remarkable family of (Estrideous flies, the ATTACKS OF INSECTS UPON PROPERTY. 21 larvae of some of which are ordinarily termed bots. In hkemanner our poultry and our bees are subject to the attacksof various insects, of which tlie Deaths-head moth and theGalleria are Deaths-head Moth. It
The entomologist's text book : an introduction to the natural history, structure, physiology and classification of insects, including the Crustacea and Arachnida . Gasteropliilus equi. 1 - a Gasterophilus haeraorrhoidalis. fleas of different species, ticks, gadflies, forest flies, andespecially the remarkable family of (Estrideous flies, the ATTACKS OF INSECTS UPON PROPERTY. 21 larvae of some of which are ordinarily termed bots. In hkemanner our poultry and our bees are subject to the attacksof various insects, of which tlie Deaths-head moth and theGalleria are Deaths-head Moth. It is not, however, to ourselves and li^ing animals thatthe ravages of insects are confined, almost every species ofproperty being in some measure or other liable to be injuredby them. Our clothes, and other woollen productions, aredevoured by the larvae of various species of clothes-moths,which not only feed thereon, but also form for themselvescoverings of the same materials; and the richest furs aresubject to the attacks of a similar insect; whilst our mu-seums are equally ravaged by the Dermestes and furniture is often completely destroyed by the timber-boring beetles and death-watches {Anohium); and somespecies of white ants, in warm climates, are so destructive inthis respect, that if a chair or table be suffered to remain fora time in the same situation, the interior substance mil becompletely consumed, nothing remaining but the outsideshell, which the insect has the instinct to leave entire. Thelast-named insects may indeed be regarded as amongst
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