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Even Beatrix Potter references the beetle in her children's book The Tailor of Gloucester (written 1901, published 1903) when the mice under the tea-cups start up "a chorus of little tappings, all sounding together, and answering one another, like watch-beetles in an old worm-eaten window-shutter—". [citation needed]
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]
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 ]
Hemicoelus is a genus of death-watch beetles in the family Ptinidae. ... (Say, 1823) i c g b (eastern deathwatch beetle) Hemicoelus costatus (Aragona, 1830) g;
In the early days, he used a motorbike with a sidecar to travel about. In 1913-1914, Lefroy was consulted by Frank Baines, Principal Architect of the Office of Works, to study ways of exterminating death watch beetles that had been found in Westminster Hall, beside England's Houses of Parliament. He began to try out various chemicals and ...
The goldspotted oak borer is just 14 miles from the Santa Monica Mountains' 600,000 oak trees and threatens to devastate forests throughout California, harming wildlife and increasing fire risks.
A Field Guide to the Beetles of North America (Peterson Field Guides). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 978-0395910894. Wollaston, T.V. (1861). "On the Anobiidae of the Canary Islands". The Annals and Magazine of Natural History: Including Zoology, Botany, and Geology. 7: 11–19.
Hemicoelus canaliculatus is a species of death-watch beetle in the family Ptinidae. [1] [2] [3] References ... A Field Guide to the Beetles of North America ...