Furniture Beetles

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Excerpt from Furniture Beetles: Their Life-History and How to Check or Prevent the Damage Caused by the Worm It is not infrequently the householder's lot to see some valued piece of furniture or some part of the wood-work in the house damaged or destroyed by what is commonly known as the worm - little six-legged, white grubs which live inside the wood devouring it and turning it to powder. These destructive grubs eventually become small beetles. The worm or grub has to the beetle the same relationship that a caterpillar has to the butterfly or moth into which it will turn. A beetle is, like a butterfly, one of those insects which in the course of their life undergo a complete metamorphosis or change of form. Coming from an egg to begin with, it appears at first in the form of a larva or grub. The larva feeds actively and continues to grow for a more or less prolonged period, until, when full-led and full-grown, there comes a resting stage, then it is transformed into a pupa or chrysalis, from which, after a further lapse of time, the beetle emerges to appear shortly after in the full development of form and colour which it will retain for the rest of its days. In its final form a beetle usually has two pairs of wings, but the front wings are quite unlike ordinary insect-wings, they are the hard, scale-like structures which, meeting by their inner edge along the middle line form a sheath or cover over the middle and hinder part of its back. The hind wings or true flying wings of a beetle, when not displayed in flight, are kept folded and hidden for the most part beneath its modified fore-wings, which hence receive the name of wing-cases or elytra. There are very many different species of beetles in the world whose larvae live in wood and damage it to a more or less serious extent by feeding on it and forming tunnels or burrows as they eat their way in various directions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.