Ants. especially the white ant. pay frequent visits to the house. but the worst scourge of all is the ravenous bedbug. 

The bedbug is also by no means the harmless creature which it is generally regarded. 

The flea. the louse. the bedbug. the house fly. the mosquito. the tick. have all within a few years taken their places as important transmitters of disease. 

The wood-tick is a small. rather disgusting-looking creature which. in appearance and size. resembles the common bedbug. 

There is only one objection to the box spring: when the bedbug once effects an entrance therein. the days of that spring are numbered. for there is no evicting him.