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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]
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]
Hadrobregmus pertinax is a species of woodboring beetle within the genus Hadrobregmus of the family Ptinidae. The adult is black, with yellow hairs at the back corners of its head, and is 4–5 mm long. The larva is white, about 5 mm long, and lives in decaying wood. [1] [2] The larval stage lasts many years.
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.
Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Hemicoelus pusillus is a species of death-watch beetle in the family Ptinidae.
Anobiinae is the subfamily of death-watch beetles [3] in the family Ptinidae, with at least 45 genera. [4] [5] [1] It was formerly considered a member of the family Anobiidae, but its family name has since been changed to Ptinidae. [1] [6] [7] [5] The larvae of a number of species tend to bore into wood, earning them the name "woodworm" or ...
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]