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Bug (English name of the suborder h)

the English name of the suborder h heteroptera, one of two ranked under the order hemiptera or rhyncota.

Most of the species essentially resemble the bed-bug, except that they have wings.

Some suck the blood of animals , and others subsist on vegetable juices. Not a few species are beautiful, but many have the same unpleasant smell which tractive form and manner of life of the bed-bug are too well known to require description. The eggs, which are white, are deposited in the beginning of sumbedsteads or furniture, or to the walls of rooms.

Before houses existed, the bug probably lived under the bark of trees. are deposited in the beginning of sum-

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