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  • The culprits are psocids - or booklice - which are common but harmless insects between one and two millimetres long.
  • Psocids or booklice are common but harmless insects between 1 mm and 2 mm long, which can survive in dry powdery foods.
  • Platyptera: flat and broad-winged: an ordinal term applied to insects with four net-veined wings, secondaries longitudinally folded beneath primaries; mouth mandibulate; prothorax free; transformations complete: Psocidae, Termitidae, Perlidae and Mallophaga. Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology
  • Psocids are common but harmless household pests, smaller than a pinhead, that can live in dry powdery type foods.
  • Book lice is a species of insect called psocid which was given its common name as it used to live on the binding materials of old books.
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  • Most psocids live outdoors and have wings. They can be found on tree bark, tree and shrub foliage, or under stones. These psocids are known as 'barklice'.
  • You press your eye against the eyepiece until, like the row of stiff bristles on the leg of a psocid, your lash rakes and combs the optical glass. Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas
  • Psocids or booklice as they are commonly known are small usually dull coloured insects with a body length of 1-10 millimetres.
  • I can't say as I know anything about exactly what type of psocid they are, but the feature that I immediately noticed that distinguished your beasties as psocids were the super-long antennae. Is it an isopteran? Is it a zorapteran? It's a psocopteran!
  • KUCEROVA, Z. and ZUSKA, J. (1991) Susceptibility of the psocid pest Liposcelis bostrychophilus to methoprene and to a new juvenoid.pp. 565-570. Chapter 10
  • Psocids are also known as booklice because some types of the insect are attracted to delicate materials such as books and furs.

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