Crossword-Solution: ANOBIUM 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 11

The belief that the stridulation serves as a sexual call is supported by the fact that death-ticks (Anobium tessellatum) are well known to answer each other’s ticking, and, as I have myself observed, a tapping noise artificially made.

Doubleday, H., on the proportion of the sexes in the smaller moths; males of Lasiocampa quercus and on the attraction of the Saturnia carpini by the female; on the proportion of the sexes in the Lepidoptera; on the ticking of Anobium tesselatum; on the structure of Ageronia feronia; on white butterflies alighting upon paper.

Landois, H., gnats attracted by sound; on the production of sound by the Cicadae; on the stridulating organ of the crickets; on Decticus; on the stridulating organs of the Acridiidae; stridulating apparatus, in Orthoptera; on the stridulation of Necrophorus; on the stridulant organ of Cerambyx heros; on the stridulant organ of Geotrupes; on the stridulating organs in the Coleoptera; on the ticking of Anobium.

Superstitious families are less terrified at thunder and lightning than at the ticking of the death-watch (_anobium tesselatum_), whose noise is supposed to prognosticate an early death in the household.

This minute little insect, whose scientific name is the _anobium paniceum_, bores through the leaves of old volumes, making sometimes holes which deface and mutilate the text.