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Show Beetles Gnaw Through Lead Cables A TINY beetle, smaller than a ladybug, is causing much damage to telephone cable3 in California, reports Popular Science, by gnawing gnaw-ing tunnels through the protective lead cover-r cover-r ing of the cables Tho rain-water penetrates to BR the wires Inclosed In tho lead tubing and causes aim Bhort-circults. ifm No effective method of combatting these de- structive beetles has as yet been devised and the I telephone companies havo sent nn urgent appeal j for Hid to the entomological bureau of the De partment of Agriculture in Washington. D. C. |