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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Enemies of Books by William Blades: In this belief, some country librarians object to opening the library
windows lest the enemy should fly in from the neighbouring woods,
and rear a brood of worms. Anyone, indeed, who has seen
a hole in a filbert, or a piece of wood riddled by dry rot,
will recognize a similarity of appearance in the channels made
by these insect enemies.
Among the paper-eating species are:--
1. The "Anobium." Of this beetle there are varieties, viz.:
"A. pertinax," "A. eruditus," and "A. paniceum." In the larval
state they are grubs, just like those found, in nuts; in this stage
they are too much alike to be distinguished from one another.
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