Principal household insects of the United States . —Cimexlectularius: n, first larval skin shed at liist moult; l, second larval stage taken imme-diately after emerging from a; c, same after firsl meal, distended with blood (original). insect, and the general use in later years of iron and brass bedsteadshas very greatly facilitated its eradication. They are not apt to bevery active in winter, especially in cold rooms, and ordinarily hibernatein their places of concealment. The bedbug, though normally feeding on human blood, seems to beable to subsist for a time at least on much simpler
Principal household insects of the United States . —Cimexlectularius: n, first larval skin shed at liist moult; l, second larval stage taken imme-diately after emerging from a; c, same after firsl meal, distended with blood (original). insect, and the general use in later years of iron and brass bedsteadshas very greatly facilitated its eradication. They are not apt to bevery active in winter, especially in cold rooms, and ordinarily hibernatein their places of concealment. The bedbug, though normally feeding on human blood, seems to beable to subsist for a time at least on much simpler food, and in fact theevidence is pretty conclusive that it is able to get more or less suste-nance from the juices of moistened wood, or the moisture in the accu-mulations of dust, etc., in crevices in flooring. No other explanationwould seem to account for the fact that houses long unoccupied arefound, on being reinhabitated, to be thoroughly stocked with bedbugs. There is a very prevalent belief among the old settlers in the Westthat this ins
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