Excerpt from The Principal Household Insects of the United States: With a Chapter on Insects Affecting Dry Vegetable Foods The very curious but not unexpected condition has been shown in the preparation of this bulletin that of some of our commonest house hold insects the life history is not known with any degree of exactness. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.