Identifier: prinhou00unit (find matches)
Title: Principal household insects of the United States
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: United States.: Division of Entomology
Subjects: Beneficial insects--United States Insect pests--United States Household pests--United States.
Publisher: Washington : Govt. Print. Off.
Contributing Library: University of Florida, George A. Smathers Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Florida, George A. Smathers Libraries with support from LYRASIS and the Sloan Foundation

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material, but caution must be exercisedon account of their inflammability. Anot her means of protecting sucharticles is to sponge them very carefully with a dilute solution ofcorrosive sublimate in alcohol made just strong enough not to lease a whitestain. C. L. M. CHAPTER V.SPECIES INJURIOUS TO WALL PAPER, BOOKS, TIMBERS, ETC. By C. L. Marlatt.THE WHITE ANT. (Termes flavipes Koll.) No insect occurring in houses is capable of doing greater damagethan the one under consideration. Its injuries are often hidden andconcealed until the damage is beyond repair, and as it affects the integ-rity of the building itself as well as its contents, the importance of theinsect becomes very evident. Fortunately it is not often present inthe North in houses, but as the Tropics are approached the injuriesfrom it in dwellings or other structures of wood are of common expe-rience and often of the most serious nature, causing the sudden crum-bling of bridges, wharves, and settling of floors or buildings.
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Fig. 28.—Termes Jlavipes: a. adult male; b, terminal abdominal segments of same from below; c, sameof female; d, male, side view somewhat inflated by treatment with ammonia: e, abdomen of femaleside view; /, larsus, showing joints and claw; a, d, e, enlarged; b, c,/, greatly enlarged (original). The term white ant, by which this insect is universally known, isentirely inappropriate in so far as it indicates any relationship with thetrue ants. Strictly speaking, the white ant is not an ant at all, butbelongs with the Neuroptera and is allied to the dragon flies and Mayflies. The only analogy with ants is in superficial resemblance and inthe social habits of the two groups, in which great similarity exists.The popular acquaintance with the termite or white ant is mainly70 SPECIES INJURIOUS TO WALL PAPER, BOOKS, ETC. 71 derived from witnessing its nuptial spring flight, when the small,brownish, ant-like creatures with long glistening white wings emergefrom cracks in the ground or from

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