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  2. Deathwatch beetle - Wikipedia

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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]

  3. File:Death-watch Beetle - Trichodesma species, Leesylvania ...

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  4. Hemicoelus carinatus - Wikipedia

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    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]

  5. Hemicoelus - Wikipedia

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    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;

  6. Tricorynus - Wikipedia

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    Tricorynus is a genus of deathwatch and spider beetles in the family Ptinidae. ... "Death-watch and spider beetles of Wisconsin (Coleoptera: Ptinidae)" (PDF).

  7. Ptinidae - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. Hemicoelus gibbicollis - Wikipedia

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    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]

  9. Trichodesma sordida - Wikipedia

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    Trichodesma sordida is a species of death-watch beetle in the family Ptinidae. It is found in North America. [1] [2] [3] References Further reading. Borowski, Jerzy ...