id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 63225 Marlatt, C. L. The Bedbug [1916] .txt text/plain 5301 322 66 [Illustration: Fig. 1.--Bedbug (_Cimex lectularius_): _a_, Adult female, a considerable number of parasitic bugs, closely related to the bedbug, [Illustration: Fig. 2.--Bedbug: Adult before engorgement. the bedbug has always found its host an active enemy, has resulted in a weeks as the period under these conditions from egg to adult insect. Under normal conditions the food of the common bedbug is obtained from course of the department's study of this insect in 1896, young bedbugs, As a messmate of human beings in dwelling houses, the bedbug is normally The activity of the insect is controlled entirely by temperature and food Living always in houses as it does and being well concealed, the bedbug bedbug, as, for example, the house centipede[12] and the common little nuisance.[14] Bedbugs and other household insects, however, are not of the [14] Bedbugs and red ants, _In_ Insect Life, v. into every crevice in the house or room where the bedbugs conceal ./cache/63225.txt ./txt/63225.txt