 ... interest the European reader by giving him a clear and trustworthy account of some of the insect pests which infest houses in the Southern States of America. Among the insects which are equally well known in Europe and America is the bed-bug, which...  Eclectic Medical Gleaner - Page 4151909Full view - About this book
 | United States. Bureau of Entomology - 1891 - 50 pages
...north. It probably came to this country with the earliest colonists ; at least Kalm, writing in 1748-49, stated that it was plentiful in the English colonies...characterized by possessing a piercing and sucking beak. The bedbug is to man what the chinch bug is to grains or the squash bug to cucurbs. Like nearly all the... | |
 | United States. Bureau of Entomology - 1907 - 14 pages
...much flattened, obovate, and in color is rust-red, with the abdomen more or less tinged with black. The absence of wings is a most fortunate circumstance,...this pest, even for the most careful and thorough of housekeepers. Some slight variation in length of wing pads has been observed, but no individual... | |
 | 1896 - 144 pages
...came to this 2805— No. 4 3 country with the earliest colonists, at least Kalrn, writing in 1748-49, stated that it was plentiful in the English colonies...characterized by possessing a piercing and sucking beak. The bedbug is to man what the chinch bug is to grains or the squash bug to cucurbs. Like nearly all the... | |
 | 1896 - 786 pages
...this 21470— No. 4 3 country with the earliest colonists, at least Kalin, writing in 17-18— 49, stated that it was plentiful in the English colonies...among the Indians. The bedbug belongs to the order Heiniptera, which includes the true bugs or piercing insects, characterized by possessing a piercing... | |
 | 1925 - 736 pages
...sedentary life, they never took up with the more or less nomadic natives. Kalm, in 1748, says bedbugs were plentiful in the English Colonies and in Canada, though unknown among the Indians. They found very good oysters in what is now Barnstable Harbor, Cape Cod; and Champlain says: "All the... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1897 - 678 pages
...in Europe and America is the bed-bug, which Prof. Marlatt informs us was said by Kalm in 1748 to be plentiful in the English colonies and in Canada, though unknown among the Indians. We believe there is evidence of its having been abundant in Jamaica early in the last century. Prof.... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1897 - 694 pages
...in Europe and America is the bed-bug, which Prof. Marlatt informs us was said by Kalin in 1748 to be plentiful in the English colonies and in Canada, though unknown among the Indians. We believe there is evidence of its having been abundant in Jamaica early in the last century. Prof.... | |
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