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• n  typical shipworm

• Gases have been developed for the destruction of the cotton boll-weevil, the wood-boring teredo, various species of disease-bearing mosquitoes, barnacles on ship bottoms and .
• It's strong yet soft, smooth and light, hardly shrinks and is pleasant-smelling thanks to an oil, methyl eugenol, that's hated by teredo, the termites of the sea.