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Hello Simon, It looks very similar to an adult museum beetle, Anthrenus museorum, in the dermestid group. Others might have a keener eye, however. :) The habit of them trying to get out windows, failing and depositing themselves in as the sills, is similar to what I see in adult varied carpet beetles. In your farm house their larvae could be feeding on dead rodents, other dead insects within the structure. Some more information on them via MuseumPests.net website: http://museumpests.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/museum-beetle-fact-sheet.pdf Best, Matt Matthew A. Mickletz - Manager, Preventive Conservation - Winterthur Museum<http://www.winterthur.org/> - 302.888.4752 IPM Working Group Co-Chair From: pestlist-ow...@museumpests.net [mailto:pestlist-ow...@museumpests.net] On Behalf Of Simon Schölch Sent: Friday, August 11, 2017 7:53 AM To: 'pestlist@museumpests.net' <pestlist@museumpests.net> Subject: [pestlist] Beetle identification This is a message from the Museumpests.net List. To post to this list send it as an email to pestlist@museumpests.net<mailto:pestlist@museumpests.net> To unsubscribe look at the footer of this email. ----------------------------------------------------------- Hallo Group, This little guy I could not find in any of my books. The specimen is from southern Jutland in Denmark. Dozens of individuals of this species appeared inside an old, inhabited farm house (timber structures, probably organic filling material in ceilings, all kinds of possible food sources available, but the source has not yet been discovered) in the course of July, flying to the windows to get outside. They are about 3 mm in length. Colour isn't great in the pictures, but greyish-brown with off-white scale markings is still pretty much what it looks like in real. Any help would be appreciated! Best regards, Simon Schölch Konserveringstekniker / Dipl.-Rest. Bevaringscenter Fyn v/Langelands Museum Østergade 25 5900 Rudkøbing Tlf. + 45 63 51 63 12 Tlf. + 45 63 51 63 13 E-mail: s...@langelandkommune.dk<mailto:s...@langelandkommune.dk> [cid:image001.png@01D1747F.4ED4E9E0] -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by E.F.A. Project<http://www.efa-project.org>, and is believed to be clean. Click here to report this message as spam.<http://mail.winterthur.org/cgi-bin/learn-msg.cgi?id=EAB4A1000B8.AAD47&token=131a5807aeb8f9f1c86d912ab3ec29cd> ------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list send an email to imail...@museumpests.net<mailto:imail...@museumpests.net> and in the body put: "unsubscribe pestlist" Any problems email l...@zaks.com<mailto:l...@zaks.com> ------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list send an email to imail...@museumpests.net and in the body put: "unsubscribe pestlist" Any problems email l...@zaks.com
