"The grasshopper who came to dinner."  From Improvement Era, 1959.

From When a Man Commutes by Alan Dale and illustrated by H. B. Martin, 1918.

From Nature Study and Life by Clifton Hodge, 1903.

From When a Man Commutes by Alan Dale and illustrated by H. B. Martin, 1918.

From The Children's Newspaper, 1935.

The Minotaur did have ticks, and they were indeed immortal.  From Current Sauce, 1967.

From College of the Albemarle's 1964 yearbook.

From Cine-Mundial, 1929.

"You're not the first one to develop a bug powder problem" (the film adaptation of William S. Burroughs' Naked Lunch).  From Nebelspalter, 1933.

The phrase, "Administrators keep the worms away" is a Googlewhack.  (Yes, we checked!)  From Piedmont's 1929 yearbook.

From Satirikon, 1909.

Here's a precursor to the film Naked Lunch, in which Judy Davis injects herself with enough insecticide that her very breath kills bugs.  From Le Journal Amusant, 1899.

"Tough on flies," from Joseph Breck's Annual Descriptive Catalogue of Seeds, 1896.

"Death to lice," from the Joseph Breck & Sons annual seed catalog, 1900.

"Dust fly killer," from Boletín Oficial de la República Argentina, 1910.