Scarce swallowtail as far as the Arabian Peninsula, Pakistan, India and western China. A few specimens of the scarce swallowtail have been reported from central Sweden and the United Kingdom but they were probably only strays and not migrants. These swallowtail butterflies inhabit gardens, towns as well as the countryside, in fields and open woodlands. They are found in places with sloe thickets and particularly orchards. In the Alps they can be found up to altitudes of 2000 m., but usually they prefer foothills and lower levels. The presence of "Iphiclides podalirius" in the floodplain of the Morava River in the Slovak
Bookworm (insect) Bookworm (insect) Bookworm is a popular generalization for any insect that is said to bore through books. True book-borers are uncommon. Two types of moths, the common clothes moth and the brown house moth, will attack cloth bindings. Leather-bound books attract various beetles, such as the larder beetle, drugstore beetle and the larva of the black carpet beetle. Larval death watch beetles and common furniture beetles will tunnel through wood and paper (if it is nearby the wood). A major book-feeding insect is the book or paper louse (also known as booklouse or paperlouse). These are tiny (under 1 mm),