This is a message from the Museumpests List. To post to this list send it as an email to pestlist@museumpests.net To unsubscribe please look at the footer of this email. ----------------------------------------------------------- I hope you don't mind if I jump in, but since you are already talking about Latridiidae...
We've had minute brown scavenger beetles in our building, and they were concentrated in cardboard boxes containing bubble wrap. They were in a climate controlled space (68F/48%rh). I have a couple of theories of where the beetles might be coming from, but any suggestions as to why they keep going after our bubble wrap? I'm guessing it has something to do with the plastic trapping moisture which would promote mold growth, but we don't see any evidence of mold on the bubble wrap. It also makes me question the use of bubble wrap in collections. Does anyone out there have more experience with Latridiidae and know why they want my bubble wrap and how I can keep them out of it? Or care to comment on bubble wrap as a safe harbor for mold? Thanks, Amber the warhol: Amber E. Morgan Associate Registrar 117 Sandusky Street Pittsburgh, PA 15212 T 412.237.8306 F 412.237.8340 E morg...@warhol.org W www.warhol.org<http://www.warhol.org/> The Andy Warhol Museum One of the four Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh Email newsletter http://members.carnegiemuseums.org/email Membership http://members.carnegiemuseums.org/SupportCMP ________________________________ From: ad...@museumpests.net [mailto:ad...@museumpests.net] On Behalf Of Lou Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2011 12:21 PM To: pestlist@museumpests.net Subject: Re: [pestlist] Insect ID New Pix #2 Ryan, Thanks for sending the specimens. As I suggested in an earlier email, "I think they look more like Corticaria species (hard to say, the image can't be zoomed in without losing definition) or something similar. These would be beetles that belong to the Latridiidae. Older literature/name is listed as Lathridiidae.", they are representatives of the family Latridiidae (minute brown scavenger beetles), genus Corticaria, and not ground beetles, members of the family Carabidae. Antennae not filiform, but have last 3 segments of antennae enlarged. Hind trochanters normal, not expanded, extended. Probably Corticaria serrata. "I recently found these little guys in a historic house on property. Here are the environmental conditions: * Specimens were located almost exclusively on 2nd floor * Specimens were found on wood floors (unfinished) with gaps in between boards and an inaccessible void underneath * Specimens found mostly under beds and on insect monitors * A few specimens found on a wool blanket (dead) folded on a colonial era bed" Since latridiids feed exclusively on molds, fungi, there must be something going on in that area that allows mold & fungi to grow. It may not be a large growth, but enough to support a latridiid population. It may be a water leak, seepage, condensation, something that isn't obvious but related to a moisture condition. It could be on the lower floor and the beetles are crawling up to the 2nd floor because it's easier in some way to get to where you are finding them. Could be on a higher lever and they are coming down. There may be another explanation, maybe you will find out more information during your investigation. Keep us informed. On Thu, 8 Dec 2011 18:38:23 -0500, bugma...@aol.com wrote: This is a message from the Museumpests List. To post to this list send it as an email to pestlist@museumpests.net To unsubscribe please look at the footer of this email. ----------------------------------------------------------- It has filiform antennae and certainly looks like a ground beetle. Tom Parker -----Original Message----- From: Jones, Robert (Ryan) (Ryan) To: 'pestlist@museumpests.net' Sent: Thu, Dec 8, 2011 5:20 pm Subject: [pestlist] Insect ID New Pix #2 This is a message from the Museumpests List. To post to this list send it as an email to pestlist@museumpests.net<mailto:pestlist@museumpests.net> To unsubscribe please look at the footer of this email. ----------------------------------------------------------- One more.... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To send an email to the list, send your msg to pestlist@museumpests.Net<mailto:pestlist@museumpests.Net> To unsubscribe from this list send an email to pestlist@museumpests.net<mailto:pestlist@museumpests.net> and in the subject put: "unsubscribe" - no quotes please. You are receiving the Pestlist emails in standard mode. To change to the DIGEST mode send an email to imail...@museumpests.net<mailto:imail...@museumpests.net> with this command in the body: set mode digest pestlist Any problems email l...@collectionpests.com<mailto:l...@collectionpests.com> or l...@zaks.com<mailto:l...@zaks.com> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To send an email to the list, send your msg to pestlist@museumpests.Net To unsubscribe from this list send an email to pestlist@museumpests.net and in the subject put: "unsubscribe" - no quotes please. You are receiving the Pestlist emails in standard mode. To change to the DIGEST mode send an email to imail...@museumpests.net with this command in the body: set mode digest pestlist Any problems email l...@collectionpests.com or l...@zaks.com -- ----------- Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail Louis N. Sorkin, B.C.E. Entomology Section Division of Invertebrate Zoology American Museum of Natural History Central Park West at 79th Street New York, NY 10024-5192 phone: 212-769-5613 fax: 212-769-5277 email: sor...@amnh.org The New York Entomological Society, Inc. email: n...@amnh.org web: www.nyentsoc.org Online journal from 2001 forward www.BioOne.org www.jstor.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To send an email to the list, send your msg to pestlist@museumpests.Net To unsubscribe from this list send an email to pestlist@museumpests.net and in the subject put: "unsubscribe" - no quotes please. You are receiving the Pestlist emails in standard mode. To change to the DIGEST mode send an email to imail...@museumpests.net with this command in the body: set mode digest pestlist Any problems email l...@collectionpests.com or l...@zaks.com The information contained in this message and/or attachments is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any system and destroy any copies. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To send an email to the list, send your msg to pestlist@museumpests.Net To unsubscribe from this list send an email to pestlist@museumpests.net and in the subject put: "unsubscribe" - no quotes please. You are receiving the Pestlist emails in standard mode. To change to the DIGEST mode send an email to imail...@museumpests.net with this command in the body: set mode digest pestlist Any problems email l...@collectionpests.com or l...@zaks.com
