I agree with Lou. I've seen mites on Bessie beetles and others. Tom Parker -----Original Message----- From: Louis Sorkin <[email protected]> To: pestlist <[email protected]> Sent: Wed, Aug 29, 2018 1:34 pm Subject: RE: [pestlist] Mystery
The mites could be a commensal species that lives with the beetle and jumped ship when their transportation died. Looks like one of the mesostigmatid mite species (there are many, but could be unique to that species of beetle). From: [email protected] <[email protected]>On Behalf Of Todd Holmberg Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2018 12:41 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [pestlist] Mystery Hello Pestlist, Today while checking a sticky trap, I saw a ground beetle next to a bunch of frass, and something that looked like potentially a dermestid larva. I put it under the microscope, and saw that it was a dermestid larva, and there were also a bunch of these super small critters under/around the ground beetle. At first, I thought they were booklice, but they don't seem to have a "booklice-like head". Sorry about the picture quality. They are SUPER small, and this was as close as the microscope could get without getting stuck on the trap. Does anyone have a guess as to what they might be? I have heard people say that sometimes eggs will "hatch out of" insects that are stuck on traps- is that true? My guess is the ground beetle was stuck there for 1-2 weeks. If anyone has any thoughts, they would be appreciated. Thanks, Todd -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Museumpests" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pestlist/CAMxAh%2Bgmf11x-L-HGjFdepjF-2eZ7d9J-HxT-Q%3D7Z5GwtX-GjA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Museumpests" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pestlist/DM5PR14MB17214D8F15F00F411633A13EA6090%40DM5PR14MB1721.namprd14.prod.outlook.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Museumpests" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pestlist/1658720015b-1ebc-14de%40webjas-vae061.srv.aolmail.net. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
