Telephone-pole beetle
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telephone-pole-beetle-169-14764526
title:
Telephone-pole beetle
text:
The telephone-pole beetle is a beetle native to the eastern United States and the only known living representative of the otherwise extinct family Micromalthidae. Larvae of the beetle live in decaying wood and can be pests to wooden structures, lending them their common name, the 'telephone-pole beetle.' The larvae of Micromalthus debilis start as tiny white creatures with well-developed legs, resembling carabid larvae. Larvae bore into moist, decaying chestnut and oak logs, creating galleries a
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Species of beetle
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone-pole_beetle
date created:
2004-01-08T06:44:16Z
date modified:
2024-08-31T20:32:07Z
main entity:
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image:
{"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b0/Micromalthus_debilis_larva.png","width":1221,"height":914}
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