Fremont bookworms and literary lovers can rest easy: bothersome bugs in books are very rare and not harmful to people.
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Booklice is from the order of insects called Psocoptera, and is also known as dustlice or deathwatches, according to the Texas A&M University entomology extension office. Booklice have no relation nor connection to human lice variations.
Officials at Texas A&M wrote in a report that booklice, “are not external parasites and do not bite man or other animals. The name, ‘booklouse’ comes from some species’ association with books, especially in the days before air conditioning, when natural humidity in homes and libraries allowed more frequent growth of mildew on book bindings and pages.”
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