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Bookworm is a general name for any insect that is said to bore through books. [1][2] The damage to books that is commonly attributed to "bookworms" is often caused by the larvae of various types of insects, including beetles, moths, and cockroaches, which may bore or chew through books seeking food. The damage is not caused by any species of worm.
Insect house in Parkend, the Forest of Dean, UK. An insect hotel, also known as a bug hotel or insect house, is a manmade structure created to provide shelter for insects. They can come in a variety of shapes and sizes depending on the specific purpose or specific insect it is catered to. Most consist of several different sections that provide ...
As the holiday season approaches, the bug expert warned against using paper or cardboard boxes for storage, as the materials used in their construction can attract bugs such as cockroaches and ...
Clothes moth. Clothes moth or clothing moth is the common name for several species of moth considered to be pests, whose larvae eat animal fibres (hairs), including clothing and other fabrics. These include: Tinea pellionella, the case-bearing clothes moth. Obsolete names are: Phalaena (Tinea) pellionella, Phalaena zoolegella, Tinea demiurga ...
Clothing damage caused by larvae, with two bisselliella adults present. Tineola bisselliella is a small moth of 6–7 mm (0.24–0.28 in) body length and 9–16 mm (0.35–0.63 in) wingspan [3] (most commonly 12–14 mm or 0.47–0.55 in). [4] The head is light ferruginous ochreous, sometimes brownish-tinged. Forewings pale yellowish-ochreous ...
Insect trap. An insect trap mounted onto a pickup truck, for collection of nocturnal species. Insect traps are used to monitor or directly reduce populations of insects or other arthropods, by trapping individuals and killing them. They typically use food, visual lures, chemical attractants and pheromones as bait and are installed so that they ...
Thylodrias contractus. Motschulsky, 1839. Thylodrias is a monotypic genus [1] of beetles in the family Dermestidae containing the single species Thylodrias contractus, known commonly as the odd beetle and tissue paper beetle. It is native to Asia and is a widespread introduced species in North America. [2] It can be a pest at times.
Many types of cellulosic materials have been used, including newspaper, cardboard, cotton, straw, sawdust, hemp and corncob. Modern cellulose insulation, made with recycled newspaper using grinding and dust-removing machines and adding a fire retardant, began in the 1950s and came into general use in the United States in the 1970s.