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The use of the word "treasures" could refer to the contents of a treasure box or a store house. Moths are often associated with the destruction of fabrics, and in this era, pieces of clothing were a major investment. What is meant by the Greek, brosis, sometimes translated as "rust", is less certain. The word generally means "eating".
D. vulnerans is a small moth having a characteristic rust-coloured (ferruginous) body. The head region surrounding the antennae are white. It has two pairs of legs, and the two fore legs have white bands. The leg hairs, palpi, are white at the tip and brown at the base. [5] The two fore wings are hairy with shiny rust colour and silvery margins.
Monopis laevigella, the skin moth, is a species of tineoid moth. It belongs to the fungus moth family (Tineidae), and therein to the nominate subfamily Tineinae . It is (under its junior synonym Tinea rusticella ) the type species of the genus Monopis and its junior objective synonym Hyalospila .
The damage to books that is commonly attributed to "bookworms" is often caused by the larvae of various types of insects, including beetles, moths, and cockroaches, which may bore or chew through books seeking food.
Mites which colonize human skin are the cause of several types of itchy skin rashes, such as gamasoidosis, [51] rodent mite dermatitis, [52] grain itch, [53] grocer's itch, [53] and scabies; Sarcoptes scabiei is a parasitic mite responsible for scabies, which is one of the three most common skin disorders in children. [54]
Gongylonema pulchrum was first named and presented with its own species by Molin in 1857. The first reported case was in 1850 by Dr. Joseph Leidy, when he identified a worm "obtained from the mouth of a child" from the Philadelphia Academy (however, an earlier case may have been treated in patient Elizabeth Livingstone in the seventeenth century [2]).
Europe’s battle with Chinese automakers, particularly for their respective export markets, has comparisons with a tussle that occurred between Japanese incumbent carmakers and disruptors from ...
The erebid moth Ascalapha odorata, commonly known as the black witch, [1] is a large bat-shaped, dark-colored nocturnal moth, normally ranging from the southern United States to Brazil. Ascalapha odorata is also migratory into Canada and most states of United States. It is the largest noctuoid in the continental United States. In the folklore ...