Librarians at a medieval abbey in Hungary are battling a beetle infestation that is threatening its ancient book collection. Workers at the Pannonhalma Archabbey are removing around 100,000 books for disinfection after drugstore beetles were found to be damaging the priceless volumes. They say the warming climate is to blame as it doubles the reproduction cycle of the beetles. (AP video by Bela Szandelszky) Subscribe: http://smarturl.it/AssociatedPress Read more: https://apnews.com This video may be available for archive licensing via https://newsroom.ap.org/home
Beetle infestation in hot temps threatens precious medieval texts
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Librarians at a medieval abbey in Hungary are battling a beetle infestation that is threatening its ancient book collection. Workers at the Pannonhalma Archabbey are removing around 100,000 books for disinfection after drugstore beetles were found to be damaging the priceless volumes. They say the warming climate is to blame as it doubles the reproduction cycle of the beetles. (AP video by Bela Szandelszky) Subscribe: http://smarturl.it/AssociatedPress Read more: https://apnews.com This video may be available for archive licensing via https://newsroom.ap.org/home
