Report On a Beetle Destroying Boots Shoes in Sydney
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Anobium domesticum, Foure, is common in the wood-work and furniture of old houses, where it is well known under the popular name of the "death watch. " Kirby, in his " Text Book of Entomology, " says that they are known to eat leather, but I can find no record of them having attacked manufactured leather in the wholesale manner that they have in the present instance. However, Anobium paniceum is recorded to have tried his sharp little jaws upon almost everything. Curtis says he has known it to ...eat and pupate in cayenne pepper, completely destroying the contents of the tins, that it is a pest in drug- stores, eating all kinds of dried roots, and that among ship- 5 owners it is well known for the ravages it commits in the ship biscuits, eating and breeding in them until they are utterly destroyed. He also says that he has been informed that they were very plentiful in the roof of King's College Chapel, Cambridge, where they were reported to have eaten through the sheet lead. In 1884 a very similar pest appeared in great numbers in the boot and shoe warehouses in St.
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