Show A beetle that stakes males a Tle kluz holse nole the deathwatch beetle has lims the invariable le habit of feigning death when seized or d disturbed the simulation 1 is u be persistent per it that when immersed in water creven or even in alcohol the insect remains perfectly immovable ind and will allow itself to be burned alivo alive rather than betray itself the larva of tho the insect lives in woodwork framework old furniture etc wl which ich it gnaws in the interior without anything I 1 outside betraying its presence A few weeks after it has been transformed to the frysalis cry salis state the perfect insect comes forth and makes mak m its exit from the tha wood by boring a cylindrical hole in it which thereafter shows that the woo wood d has been attacked and it is often mutilated to such a degree that it is virtually destroyed deb troyed A smaller species of the same genus works equal havoc not only with wood but with booke books herbia natural history bl atory collections cork dry brood broad crackers etc detroit free press |