. Animals of land and sea. Zoology; Insects; Zoology. 68 ANIMALS OF LAND AND SEA In old houses at night or when it is very still a faint ticking sound is often heard which seems to come from the beams or from the furniture. It does come from the woodwork, and it indicates the pres- ence therein or thereon of a Httle beetle called the "; In dry wood their little grubs live very long before becoming large enough to transform to the ?^ adult. Last year a number of the beetles emerged from a chair I bought seventeen years ago. The grubs had been in the wood when the chair was
. Animals of land and sea. Zoology; Insects; Zoology. 68 ANIMALS OF LAND AND SEA In old houses at night or when it is very still a faint ticking sound is often heard which seems to come from the beams or from the furniture. It does come from the woodwork, and it indicates the pres- ence therein or thereon of a Httle beetle called the "; In dry wood their little grubs live very long before becoming large enough to transform to the ?^ adult. Last year a number of the beetles emerged from a chair I bought seventeen years ago. The grubs had been in the wood when the chair was made. Other kinds of wood boring grubs have been known to live , for more than thirty years before trans- forming into beetles. Another little insect, a psocid, also called the "death watch," lives in chinks and crevices in houses and also makes a ticking sound at night. The furs, feathers, and woollen clothes in our closets and the carpets and rugs on our floors furnish abundant food for various moths and small beetles, most of the latter being. Figs. 46-48. Three deep sea fishes. For explantions of the figures see p. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Clark, Austin Hobart, b. 1880. New York, D. Van Nostrand company
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