Principal household insects of the United States . H. / ibolium cortfusum: a,beetle; 6,larva; e, pupa—all eid, lateral lobe of abdomen ot pupa; •, bead f beetbtexraa; /. name t V., tuthora Illustration). 114 PRINCIPAL HOUSEHOLD INSECTS. cracked wheat, and patented foods, but likewise infests in the writersexperience suck useful commodities as ginger, cayenne pepper, bakingpowder, orris root, snuff, slippery elm, peanuts, peas, beans, and seedsof various kinds that are kept long in store. It sometimes also attackscabinets of dried insects. As an instance of the nature of injury to flour in hous
Principal household insects of the United States . H. / ibolium cortfusum: a,beetle; 6,larva; e, pupa—all eid, lateral lobe of abdomen ot pupa; •, bead f beetbtexraa; /. name t V., tuthora Illustration). 114 PRINCIPAL HOUSEHOLD INSECTS. cracked wheat, and patented foods, but likewise infests in the writersexperience suck useful commodities as ginger, cayenne pepper, bakingpowder, orris root, snuff, slippery elm, peanuts, peas, beans, and seedsof various kinds that are kept long in store. It sometimes also attackscabinets of dried insects. As an instance of the nature of injury to flour in households may bementioned an exx)erience recently reported, as it is one that may fall tothe lot of any housekeeper. The house had been closed for six weeks,and on the return of the family the flour, which was kept in a largewooden bucket with tightly fitting cover, and known to the trade as akauakin, was swarming with the larvae and beetles of this damaged flour was removed and the bucket refilled, only to be againfound
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