deathwatchbeetle

deathwatchbeetle
deathwatch beetle n.
Any one of several beetles of the family Anobiidae, especially Xestobium rufovillosum, whose head makes a clicking sound as it burrows into wood or wooden structures. The sound was superstitiously regarded as a portent of death.

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Universalium. 2010.

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