Cahbolic Acid and Insects.—A statement appeared a short time ago to the effect that carbolic acid, sprinkled in a room, will effectually banish mosquitoes. We are now informed that it will produce the same effect on the Cimex lectularius, which swarms in the wooden houses in dirty pirts of towns. Indeed, all the insect tribes seem to hold it in detestation, and a gentleman who has lately travelled in Queensland, a country in which it is scarcely possible to place the foot without crushing a host of ants, states that after bathing his face and hands in a solution of the acid he was never troubled by these busy little insects making a pathway of his body during the night, as is their custom,
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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 13, Issue 675, 22 April 1869, Page 3
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124Untitled Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 13, Issue 675, 22 April 1869, Page 3
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