Thanks everyone for your response! Very informative and helpful as always. - Jessica
On Fri, Aug 3, 2018 at 9:49 PM Todd Holmberg <[email protected]> wrote: > Tony and Louis- > > Wow- so interesting and good to know! Thanks for the info. > > -Todd > > On Fri, Aug 3, 2018 at 6:18 PM Ann Baldwin <[email protected]> wrote: > >> You are amazing, Lou! >> >> Ann Baldwin >> Conservator of works of art on paper >> Greenwich Studios, Inc. >> 115 Havemeyer Place >> <https://maps.google.com/?q=115+Havemeyer+Place+Greenwich,+CT+06830+203&entry=gmail&source=g> >> Greenwich, CT 06830 >> <https://maps.google.com/?q=115+Havemeyer+Place+Greenwich,+CT+06830+203&entry=gmail&source=g> >> 203 >> <https://maps.google.com/?q=115+Havemeyer+Place+Greenwich,+CT+06830+203&entry=gmail&source=g> >> -918-2743 >> >> On 8/3/2018 5:39:05 PM, Louis Sorkin <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Yes, Todd, WCM are attracted to dried insects. If anyone attended the >> meeting at Harvard a few months ago, I reported on it being a “stored food >> product” moth because it was infesting insect cuisine composed of crickets >> and mealworms. These were dried, flavored insects, the packaging had been >> opened and in plastic bins (not air tight). Also the moth was infesting a >> culture of mealworms and feeding on dried bodies of the insects. The >> origin of the moth species was originally from vertebrate specimens – dried >> mouse carcasses in forgotten traps and from lost mice that had died from >> anticoagulant baits. >> >> Lou >> >> >> >> Louis N. Sorkin, B.C.E. >> >> Entomologist, Arachnologist, Myriapodologist >> >> Insect Cuisine & Entomophagy Research >> >> *[image: cid:[email protected]]* >> >> Division of Invertebrate Zoology|American Museum of Natural History >> >> Central Park West at 79th Street|New York, New York 10024-5192 >> >> [email protected] >> >> 212-769-5613 voice | 212-769-5277 fax | 917-953-0094 local pager >> >> http://www.amnh.org/our-research/staff-directory/louis-n.-sorkin >> >> The New York Entomological Society, Inc. >> >> www.nyentsoc.org >> >> [email protected] >> >> [image: cid:[email protected]] >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> *From:* [email protected] <[email protected]> *On Behalf >> Of *Todd Holmberg >> *Sent:* Friday, August 03, 2018 5:22 PM >> *To:* [email protected] >> *Subject:* Re: [pestlist] Fwd: Pest ID help >> >> >> >> Tony- >> >> >> >> You mentioned food for *Anthrenus,* do you happen to know if webbing >> moth larvae ever show interest in dead insect carcasses? >> >> >> >> Thanks! >> >> -Todd >> >> >> >> On Fri, Aug 3, 2018 at 2:31 PM, Tony Irwin <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> Yes, a hitchhiker. 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She had >> just been outside during lunch so I suspect that it hitched a ride in with >> her. But just to be certain that it's not a danger to our collections, I >> would appreciate any insight into what it is. >> >> >> >> Regards, >> >> Jessica >> >> -- >> >> Jessica Pace >> >> Preventive Conservator >> >> Barbara Goldsmith Preservation and Conservation Department >> >> NYU Libraries >> >> 70 Washington Square South >> <https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmaps.google.com%2F%3Fq%3D70%2BWashington%2BSquare%2BSouth%2BNew%2BYork%2C%2BNY%2B10012%26entry%3Dgmail%26source%3Dg&data=01%7C01%7Csorkin%40amnh.org%7Cb3d24ee9f9d04d2bd0ae08d5f9873906%7Cbe0003e8c6b9496883aeb34586974b76%7C0&sdata=7u7RUILSxkoN5CyKq173tuHcIOCZnGXyFhCRuj1ieV0%3D&reserved=0> >> >> New York, NY 10012 >> 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