Arlen,
As the Identification Subchair, I can tell you that the IPM Working Group has definitely thought about this at length. Thoughtfully organizing the images and making them accessible on museumpests.net is something that we will discuss and work on during our annual work session in March. It will take some effort on our part to make it intuitive and beneficial for users. We will see what we come up with. I can tell you that computer learning of insects in traps is a patented process that we would need royalty-free permissions to use to make it possible for museumpests.net. We will take it one step at a time for now, but I agree, that would be a wonderful resource to everyone involved. Thanks for your suggestions, Pat Kelley ________________________________ From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of Arlen Heginbotham <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2018 12:37:00 PM To: Museumpests Subject: [pestlist] Image recognition has anyone thought about collecting all of the images that have been posted over the years and the identifications that have been made? As the database grows, it could be used to train an AI algorithm to identify museum pests from pictures. another question is whether this would be desirable of course. This list is so nice and interactive. Could just be dehumanizing. But it is an interesting possibility. Arlen Heginbotham Conservator The J. Paul Getty Museum 1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1000 Los Angeles, CA 90049 (310) 440-7178 ________________________________ From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of [email protected] <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2018 7:41:32 AM To: Museumpests Subject: Re: [pestlist] Two ID Inquiries and "What is Coming Out of It??" Thank you, Tony! On Tuesday, December 18, 2018 at 1:57:30 PM UTC-8, Tony Irwin wrote: The dermestid larva appears to be Anthrenocerus (Australian carpet beetle). The white things are bits of frass - it's been eating something pale. The beetle is one of the plaster beetles - Adistemia watsoni, most likely. Tony Dr A.G.Irwin 47 The Avenues Norwich Norfolk NR2 3PH England mobile: +44(0)7880707834 phone: +44(0)1603 453524 On Tue, 18 Dec 2018 at 21:31, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: Hello Pestlist, ID help would be much appreciated for these two specimens: The first one is 'hairy' like a dermestid larvae, which we've previously found, but doesn't look like the others I've seen. Also, what the heck did it expel at one end? Eggs? Second one is the size of a booklouse, but I am unfamiliar. Thank you, everyone! I'd like to add a special Happy Holidays to you all, as well. Julie -- 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]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/pestlist. 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