ENTOMOLOGY

-HOW INSECTS CAN CARRY OR CAUSE DISEASE ~1entomological service was sought and the house freed of its pests. Theconstant moving of stl-eams of ants across a floor, the sight of bedbugsor fleas, and many other common insect occurrences may cause a nervousperson great perturbation. Recently a young entomologist was nauseatedand made very sick for hours by the sight of a louse infestedman.MemoTY and imagination WOTTY may be exemplified by the personimpressed by anti-house fly propaganda, whose imagination sees on everyfly multitudes of fatal disease germs. A person once injured by aninsect will often experience acute revulsions of feeling on sight of anothersimilar insect. .Sownd WOTTY such as that induced by the singing of mosquitoes orthe buzzing of horse flies will often lead to insomnia and in the cases ofanimals will cause great uneasiness.Smell worry or annoyance from insects often takes the form of greatembarrassment. A few years ago in Dallas, Texas, Calosoma beetles wereso numerous that people walking on the streets frequently would haveone alight on them, and, in brushing the beetle off, would cause it toexpel a sufficient quantity of liquid to make the person's presenceundesirable in polite society. Many people are so sensitive to bedbugodors that when they sleep in infested rooms they are constantly a,vareof the odor and are possessed of a fear that they will be attacked bythe bugs.Taste OITI/TU)yO/Tlce is often caused by eating berries containing bugs,or which bugs or cockroaches have contaminated. This may often causenausea.Finally, there is the worry aroused by conta·ct of insects, the tingli.'gsensation lfrom insects crawling on the body, the peppery sting of gnatsand mosquitoes, the itching sensations from vermin. Insomnia is afrequent result of such attacks.Thus as results of insect annoyance, we may have worry, nervousexhaustion, excitability,. hallucinations, frenzy, insanity, nausea, insomniaand nervous chills.3. Accidental injury to sense oTgans.-There are numerous cases onrecord of insects accidentally obtaining access to the ear or nose andcausing a stoppage of these organs, or of insects flying into the eyescausing severe irritation or even blindness. Certain species of gnatsare especially annoying when there is any kind of catarrhal affectionof these organs. Myriapods have frequently been recorded as enteringthe nose of a sleeping person.4. Poisoning.-Insects and the related arthropods may poison in avariety of ways. The bite of a tick, flea, spider, mosquito, horse fly,etc., may cause a severe local irritation and poisoning. The poisonous