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
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>>
>> 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
>>
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>>
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>>
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>>
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>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> *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. One of the seed bugs (Rhopalidae or Lygaeidae).
>> Harmless to the collections (apart from the usual providing food for
>> *Anthrenus*, should it die indoors).
>>
>> Tony
>>
>>
>> Dr A.G.Irwin
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>> On 3 August 2018 at 19:49, Jessica Lian Pace <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Hello Pestlist,
>>
>>
>>
>> One of our conservators found this insect crawling on her bench.  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
>>
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