Lexicographical Neighbors of Dermestids
Literary usage of Dermestids
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The North American Species of Drosophila by Alfred Henry Sturtevant (1921)
"A collection of small Diptera is not as difficult to keep up as is a collection
of larger insects, for the reason that dermestids do not very often attack ..."
2. The Insect Book: A Popular Account of the Bees, Wasps, Ants, Grasshoppers by Leland Ossian Howard (1905)
"Then it was found that with the dermestids had also been brought in a most
interesting parasite which proved to be ..."
3. A Manual on the Study of Insects by John Henry Comstock, Anna Botsford Comstock (1895)
"600. some Of tile dermestids as well as some of the lady-bugs transform in the
last larval skin. ..."
4. Applied Entomology; an Introductory Text-book of Insects in Their Relations by Henry Torsey Fernald (1921)
"Family Dermestidae (dermestids).—These insects are small, the largest common
species in this country being only about one-third of an inch long. ..."
5. Insects Injurious to the Household and Annoying to Man by Glenn Washington Herrick (1914)
"Feather felting by dermestids. Insect Life, Vol. 2, pp. 317-318. 1890. Another beetle
destructive to carpets. Insect Life, Vol. 3, p. 65. 1892. ..."
6. Entomological News and Proceedings of the Entomological Section of the by Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Entomological Section (1912)
"Dr. Skinner said they have had considerable trouble at the Academy, caused by
dermestids infesting the mounted heads hanging about the museum. ..."
7. Economic Entomology for the Farmer and the Fruit Grower, and for Use as a by John Bernhard Smith (1906)
"... or even in mills and provision houses where they become overrun with "skippers"
or dermestids. When used to kill insects in bins and closed receptacles, ..."
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