How many legs? It is difficult to see on your photo. Ticks would have eight legs.
Dawn Roberts Collections Manager Chicago Academy of Sciences Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum Collections Facility and Office: 4001 North Ravenswood Ave., Chicago, IL 60613 Nature Museum: 2430 North Cannon Drive, Chicago, IL 60614 Phone: 773-525-2164 Fax: 773-755-5199 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.naturemuseum.org Preserving Midwestern biodiversity since 1857 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Betsy Bruemmer Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2008 5:36 PM To: pestlist@museumpests.net Subject: [pestlist] Pest id Dear list- Can anyone help me identify this bug from a sticky trap? I don't recognize it as one of the usual suspects - book lice are my main catch. It is tiny and looks like dust to the naked eye but under a microscope it looks somewhat like a tick. It measures .485 mm or about one sixty-fourth of an inch. There are actually 20 or 30 of them in this trap, plus one springtail and one spider. Thanks for your help, as always. Regards, Betsy Bruemmer Collections Manager Museum of History & Industry (MOHAI) 2700 24th Avenue East Seattle, WA 98112 (P) 206-324-1126 x22 (F) 206-324-1346 www.seattlehistory.org
