Greetings, It has been an odd month for pests. For the first time ever, I found a sun spider in a trap. One trap had a Scarites beetle, what appeared to be a big-headed ground beetle based on the shape of the mandibles and the very skinny waist, and the trap was full of eggs from the edge to the middle of the trap, where the beetle laid stuck. I suspect it walked on to the trap to lay eggs near a food source, and got caught and died. Is that common, or is it incredibly rare? Scarites beetles are not known for being museum pests.
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