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Article written by: duddy on Aug 27, 2014



Title: Kids, keep away from books
Written by: duddy on Aug 27, 2014

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Meet the tiny book scorpion, Chelifer cancroides. If you have a collection of old books, you probably have an army of book scorpions protecting it, because they eat the book lice that eat the glue that was once used by traditional bookbinders.


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Another look at just how tiny this is:

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Written by: bio_man on Apr 10, 2015