British medical journal (1914) (14781300472)

The flour moth in soldiers' biscuits: Ephestia kuehniella

Identifier: 1914britishmedical02brit (find matches)

Title: British medical journal

Year: 1857 (1850s)

Authors: British Medical Association

Subjects: Medicine Medicine

Publisher: London British Medical Association

Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto

Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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is not only insects which destroy the continuity of thesoldiers integument t\ hich play a part iu war. It hasbeen well said that an armj- marches on its stomach, andthe admirable commissariat arrangements which havebeen so distinct a feature of tlie British ExpeditionaryForce daring the present war are the result of muchpatient care and attention during times of peace.Every one knows that recruits are frequently rejected forsome defect in their t«eth. A soldier, indeed, requiresstrong teeth, for his farinaceous food in the field is largelysupplied to him in the form of biscuits—not that moistand jovial sort of viand, as Charles Dickens described theCaptain biscuit, but hard tack v.hich challenges tuostoutest molars. During the summer of 1913 the authorities of the BritishMuseum at South Kensington arranged a very intciestingbut somewhat gruesome cxljibit in the Central Hall. Theexhibit consisted mainly of army biscuits covered byhorrible webs or unwholesome looking skeins of silky

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Fm. l.—Ej)hcstia kininiella. Moth-infested biscuit. threads, eaten through and through by the larva, of a smallmoth. Together with these wxre certain long metaliiocoils and other apparatus used in investigating certainphases of the life-history of the moth and the manufaeturoof the biscuit. The exhibit illustrates an article whichhad recently appeared on the baking of army biscuits, by OCT. 10, 1914) INSECTS AXD WAE : THE rLOIR MOTH. Mf. Dun-ant and LieutenautColouel Beveridge, on the•■ biscuit moth (Epltestia lUhniella). a member of thefamil5- Pj-validae, and records their efforts to arrive at arue ns of checkiug a veiy serious pest to service stores. The biscuit moth, E. kiiltniella, was described two yearsbefore its larva had been noted damaging flour at Halle.There has always been a certain amount of iuternatioualcourtesy in attributing the provenance of insect pests toother countries, and when i. kiihnieUa began, about truyears later, to attract attention in England it was

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