. The book of bugs. 9o The Book of Bugs. fume and boasts the proud distinction of being the costliest bug in America. In some years the grain- growers of the Middle West have been out of pocket as much as a hundred million dollars on account of it. Even so, I think its near relation costs more in blood and mental anguish. The name of " Norfolk-Howard '' I will explain later in the chapter on Cockroaches. I deem it a very genteel appellation, but the prize for quaintness I think attaches to " B ; I was puzzled about the origin of this until I came to write it down as one wou
. The book of bugs. 9o The Book of Bugs. fume and boasts the proud distinction of being the costliest bug in America. In some years the grain- growers of the Middle West have been out of pocket as much as a hundred million dollars on account of it. Even so, I think its near relation costs more in blood and mental anguish. The name of " Norfolk-Howard '' I will explain later in the chapter on Cockroaches. I deem it a very genteel appellation, but the prize for quaintness I think attaches to " B ; I was puzzled about the origin of this until I came to write it down as one would in music- " ; Then I understood. Not only does the italic b stand for flat, which the insect certainly is, but it and the. a Fig. 20. Acanthus lectularia, male and female; the terror by night, and its instruments of torture. capital together give the initials of the- I came as near writing the word then as anything could be! As far as its bite is concerned, I really believe its bark is worse. The beast does not inject any poison, though with some people the skin gets red and itchy where it bit them, and of course it is entirely possible for it to transmit infection, though I do not know of any such reported cases. As the ladies say about mice, " It isn't the mouse itself. It's the thoughts of ; So when one wakes up some night in March in the midst of a dream that he is out on the front stoop and that the mosquitoes are very. 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 resemble the original Sutherland, Harvey. New York ; London : Street & Smith
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