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In Dorothy L. Sayers' Gaudy Night (chapter 17), the mechanism of the ticking of the death-watch beetle is discussed, and it is compared with a clicking sound made by an ill-fitting hard shirt front. [citation needed] In 1988, Linda Pastan wrote a poem entitled "The Deathwatch Beetle". [27]
According to superstition, deathwatch beetles are a sign of impending death. One variety of deathwatch beetle raps its head against surfaces, presumably as part of a mating ritual, while others emit ticking sounds. [20] Henry David Thoreau observed in an 1838 article that deathwatch beetles make sounds similar to a heartbeat. [21]
Hemicoelus gibbicollis, known generally as California deathwatch beetle, is a species of death-watch beetle in the family Ptinidae. Other common names include the Pacific powder post beetle and western deathwatch beetle. It is found in North America. [1] [2] [3]
Deathwatch beetles are named because of a clicking noise that two (and possibly more) species tend to make in the walls of houses and other buildings. This clicking noise is designed to communicate with potential mates, but has historically caused fear of impending death during times of plague and sickness.
Hemicoelus carinatus (Say, 1823) i c g b (eastern deathwatch beetle) Hemicoelus costatus (Aragona, 1830) g; Hemicoelus defectus (Fall, 1905) i c g b; Hemicoelus favonii Bukejs, Alekseev, Cooper, King & Mckellar, 2017 g; Hemicoelus fulvicornis (Sturm, 1837) g; Hemicoelus gibbicollis (LeConte, 1859) i c g b (California deathwatch beetle)
Hemicoelus carinatus is a species in the subfamily Anobiinae ("death-watch beetles"), in the order Coleoptera ("beetles"). [1] [2] The species is known generally as the "Eastern deathwatch beetle". [3] It is found in North America. [2]
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Death watch beetle, an insect famed for making a distinctive ticking sound Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Deathwatch .