. A manual for the study of insects. Insects. HO THE STUDY OF INSECTS, They are very small insects, rarely measuring more than one eighth of an inch in length. Their eggs are fastened to leaves, and covered by a brown, sticky substance ; they appear more like fungi than like the eggs of other insects (Fig. i66). Family AcANTHiiD^ (Ac-an-thi'i-dae). TJie Bed-bug and the Flower-bugs. The Bed-bug, Acanthia lectularia (A-can^thi-a lec-tu-la'- ri-a), is a well-known pest over the greater part of the world. It is reddish brown in I lwKm\ ai^d measures when full-grown from one-sixth to one-fi
. A manual for the study of insects. Insects. HO THE STUDY OF INSECTS, They are very small insects, rarely measuring more than one eighth of an inch in length. Their eggs are fastened to leaves, and covered by a brown, sticky substance ; they appear more like fungi than like the eggs of other insects (Fig. i66). Family AcANTHiiD^ (Ac-an-thi'i-dae). TJie Bed-bug and the Flower-bugs. The Bed-bug, Acanthia lectularia (A-can^thi-a lec-tu-la'- ri-a), is a well-known pest over the greater part of the world. It is reddish brown in I lwKm\ ai^d measures when full-grown from one-sixth to one-fifth inch in length. The body is ovate Fig. 167.—Acan- . , /^/-r^. ^x -r . thia lectularia, m outlmc and IS very flat (Fig. 107). It is wingless, or has very short and rudimentary wing-covers. The Bed-bug is a nocturnal insect, hiding by day in the cracks of furniture and beneath various objects. Bed-bugs are easily destroyed by wetting the cracks in which they hide with corrosive sublimate dissolved in alcohol. This is sold by druggists under the name of bed-bug poison. Py- rethrum powder blown into the cracks will destroy these insects, and, unlike corrosive sublimate, is not poisonous to man. A closely allied species, A. hirundinis (hir-un-di'nis) occurs in nests of the barn-swallow. There are certain small bugs that are closely allied to the Bed-bug, but which have wing-covers that are almost always fully developed. These are the Flower-bugs. They are found in a great variety of situations, often upon trees and flowers, sometimes under bark or rubbish. They are predaceous. Figure 168 represents a wing-cover of one of these insects. Family Capsid^ (Cap'si-dae). The Leaf-bugs, This is the largest family of the Heteroptera; the members of it live chiefly upon the leaves of plants,. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resem
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