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Bedbugs

Images

  • Different species of cimex, including the bedbug (fig. 1). Coloured etching by J. Pass, 1801.
  • The manager of a hotel discusses the extermination of bedbugs with a lady. Wood engraving by 'Henriot' (H. Maigrot).
  • The male tropical bedbug (Cimex hemipterus). Pen and ink drawing by A.J.E. Terzi, ca. 1919.
  • A man using RIPA insecticide to kill bedbugs and get a good night's sleep. Colour lithograph, ca. 1900.
  • The common bedbug (Cimex lectularius). Pen and ink drawing by A.J.E. Terzi, ca. 1919.
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Catalogue

    • Books

    Infested : how the bed bug infiltrated our bedrooms and took over the world / Brooke Borel.

    Borel, Brooke | Date: 2015
    • Books

    The bed-bug : its habits and life-history and how to deal with it / by Bruce F. Cummings.

    Cummings, Bruce | Date: 1917
    • Books

    The bed-bug : its habits and their life history and how to deal with it / by Bruce F. Cummings.

    Cummings, Bruce | Date: 1917
    • Pictures
    • Online

    Different species of cimex, including the bedbug (fig. 1). Coloured etching by J. Pass, 1801.

    | Date: 20 June 1801 | Reference: 578678i
    • Pictures

    To kill bedbugs William Tell uses a crossbow, but he should be using Hahnelyn Gas to kill them by fumigation. Colour lithograph, 190- (?).

    | Date: [between 1900 and 1909?] | Reference: 583290i
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