Principal household insects of the United States . hepractice of laying straw mattings under the rugs produces a sightlyappearance, ami, while not as cleanly as a bare floor, affords still fewerharboring places for this insect. L. O. H. SPECIES INJURIOUS l- E.\ GOODS, ET <;i THE BLACK CARPET BEETLE . picew Oliv. This carpel beetle occurs in genera] in the same sit mil ions in whichthe preceding species is found. The larva is an active, light-brown,somewhat cylindrical creature, dot lied with closely appressed hairs,and with a long terminal tuft of hairs at the end of the body.
Principal household insects of the United States . hepractice of laying straw mattings under the rugs produces a sightlyappearance, ami, while not as cleanly as a bare floor, affords still fewerharboring places for this insect. L. O. H. SPECIES INJURIOUS l- E.\ GOODS, ET <;i THE BLACK CARPET BEETLE . picew Oliv. This carpel beetle occurs in genera] in the same sit mil ions in whichthe preceding species is found. The larva is an active, light-brown,somewhat cylindrical creature, dot lied with closely appressed hairs,and with a long terminal tuft of hairs at the end of the body. It isreadily distinguished from the so-called buffalo moth* by its shapeand in general by its lighter color. It is not so fond of working incracks and cutting long slits in carpets, and in general is not so dan-gerous a species as the other. This insect has been a denizen of the United States certainly since1854. If is widespread in Europe and Asia, and first attracted atten-tion as a carper insect in this country in 1871*, when Dr. Lintner found.
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