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  2. Bookworm (insect) - Wikipedia

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    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. Some such larvae exhibit a superficial resemblance to worms and are the likely ...

  3. Psocodea - Wikipedia

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    Psocodea is a taxonomic group of insects comprising the bark lice, book lice and parasitic lice. [2] It was formerly considered a superorder, but is now generally considered by entomologists as an order.

  4. Psocoptera - Wikipedia

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    Psocoptera (/ s oʊ ˈ k ɒ p t ər ə /) are a paraphyletic group of insects that are commonly known as booklice, barklice or barkflies. [1] The name Psocoptera has been replaced with Psocodea in recent literature, with the inclusion of the former order Phthiraptera into Psocodea (as part of the suborder Troctomorpha).

  5. Silverfish - Wikipedia

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    Silverfish are a cosmopolitan species, found in Africa, the Americas, Australia, Eurasia, and parts of the Pacific. [12] They inhabit moist areas, requiring a relative humidity between 75% and 95%. [13] In urban areas, they can be found in attics, basements, bathtubs, sinks, kitchens, old books, classrooms, and showers. [5]

  6. Cricket (insect) - Wikipedia

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    "The love bugs: Why it's hard to hate a cricket". The Boston Phoenix; Lisa Gail Ryan, Berthold Laufer, Lafcadio Hearn (1996). Insect musicians & cricket champions: a cultural history of singing insects in China and Japan. China Books. ISBN 0-8351-2576-9. Franz Huber, Thomas Edwin Moore, Werner Loher (1989).

  7. Pseudoscorpion - Wikipedia

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    Chelifer cancroides is the species most commonly found in homes, where it is often observed in rooms with dusty books. [1] There, the tiny animals (2.5–4.5 mm or 0.10–0.18 in) can find their food such as booklice and house dust mites. They enter homes by riding insects larger than themselves, or are brought in with firewood.

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  9. Earwig - Wikipedia

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    Earwig imagery is found throughout the book, and also occurs in the author's Ulysses in the Laestrygonians chapter. [ 63 ] Oscar Cook wrote the short story (appearing in Switch On The Light , April, 1931; A Century Of Creepy Stories 1934; Pan Horror 2 , 1960) "Boomerang", which was later adapted by Rod Serling for the Night Gallery TV-series ...