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PERMIT me to ask, through the medium of your columns, if it is known whether mice kill the common kitchen black-beetle. I have been unable to find anything bearing upon this subject, but having observed that there is an apparent reduction in the number of beetles, or at least no increase in number while the mice are permitted to live, and also that the mice do not touch any articles of food in the kitchen, where they are somewhat numerous, I have been led to think that they prey on the beetles in some way.
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BEAUMONT, W. Mice and Beetles. Nature 20, 29 (1879). https://doi.org/10.1038/020029b0
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