# Talk:Deathwatch beetle

If anyone moves this page to Wikispecies please ensure that Woodworm is updated too. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Evil Monkey  (talk • contribs) 04:08, 24 January 2005

Is it Death watch beetle, or is it Deathwatch beetle? This article uses both, confusingly. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.254.12.114  (talk • contribs) 21:40, 13 August 2006
Also, what about its life cycle? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Axtri  (talk • contribs) 12:41, 13 June 2007

I'm fairly certain it can be used interchangably. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.62.159.227  (talk • contribs) 22:37, 23 September 2007
And this is all I could find on the life cycle. Meh.
http://www.dampcondensation.co.uk/insect.htm  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.62.159.227  (talk • contribs) 22:40, 23 September 2007

In a sense, the death watch beetle's clicking actually is an omen of death. Every person dies eventually, so hearing the clicking is technically an omen of impending death...just not always soon after you hear it. Groundlord (talk) 17:45, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

That's like saying clouds in the sky are an omen, or breathing, or drinking a glass of water. Ridiculous.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.78.199.94 (talk) 02:31, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
Being born is an omen then too, because that person is just going to die eventually. See the logical fallacy in your statement? C. Pineda (クリス) (talk) 01:56, 12 September 2009 (UTC)

"provided that the wood has experienced prior fungal decay" don't see evidence of this in samples from oak buildings or my firewood pile, maybe its invisible to the eye.
From the source quoted:
Furthermore, it is well known that wood-destroying fungi can break down lignin,
and until proof is available that insects cannot also do so, the assumption that the
lignin is not altered during larval digestion is hardly justifiable. TBrockaly24 (talk) 12:32, 23 December 2012 (UTC)