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This Flesh-Eating Beetle Is Probably in Your Home
Each month, we get to know one of the state’s many wonderful and quirky critters. Latin Name: DermestidaeSize: Up to half an inch, which is still, frankly, too bigEats: Flesh and other organic materials, including your favorite textiles I can draw a clear line from my phobia of flesh-eating beetles to The Mummy (1999), in which a CGI scarab beetle burrows into a man’s hand and crawls up his arm. Real scarab beetles, I have since learned, do not actually do this. But Texas, along with the rest of the world, does in fact have flesh-eating insects: dermestids. I first heard about dermestids on a tour of Bracken Cave, the grotto just north of San Antonio that is home to the world’s largest bat colony. Baby bats who…The post This Flesh-Eating Beetle Is Probably in Your Home appeared first on Texas Monthly.