Hmm, that’s gross but understandable; I also like to try new foods. In any case, it’s more of a nuisance/squish risk than a real threat to the collections, is that right?
Thank you Jeffrey, Genevieve, and Louis, for your advice late on a Friday afternoon! Brenna From: <[email protected]> on behalf of Louis Sorkin <[email protected]> Reply-To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Date: Friday, June 7, 2019 at 4:13 PM To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Subject: [pestlist] Re: Mites in collection Looks like an erythraeid adult. Larvae are parasitic as 6-legged larvae on other arthropods. Some feed on pollen. Predacious on smaller insects and mites and eggs. There have been cases with certain species coming in from outdoors and biting people, not so much to feed on but to taste. Louis N. Sorkin, B.C.E. | Entomologist, Arachnologist, Myriapodologist Insect Cuisine & Entomophagy Research Division of Invertebrate Zoology | American Museum of Natural History Central Park West at 79th Street | New York, New York 10024-5192 [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> 212-769-5613 voice | 212-769-5277 fax The New York Entomological Society, Inc. www.nyentsoc.org<http://www.nyentsoc.org/> [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> ________________________________ From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of Brenna K. Campbell <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, June 7, 2019 3:57 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [pestlist] Mites in collection Hi All, A visitor to our reading room notified a staff member that he was seeing small red bugs near/on the collection he was consulting. The staff member trapped one of the critters, which you can see in the attached photo. Am I right in thinking that this is a clover mite or something similar? Am I also right that mites of this kind are most likely coming in from the outside, rather than living in/on a manuscript collection? Thanks, Brenna -- 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://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgroups.google.com%2Fgroup%2Fpestlist&data=01%7C01%7Csorkin%40amnh.org%7C90c5fe780461476148e708d6eb8257cf%7Cbe0003e8c6b9496883aeb34586974b76%7C0&sdata=iMW1qCcBuuPctywFRp3MjVLQCF0K8HtTthjvgDOwUNY%3D&reserved=0. To view this discussion on the web visit https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgroups.google.com%2Fd%2Fmsgid%2Fpestlist%2F3CDA36CC-3580-456A-9562-346E6C653A11%2540princeton.edu&data=01%7C01%7Csorkin%40amnh.org%7C90c5fe780461476148e708d6eb8257cf%7Cbe0003e8c6b9496883aeb34586974b76%7C0&sdata=NBMcW%2F5IPkvDWsCki871DCbJ6J60kKUtC2HOI8j8XA4%3D&reserved=0. For more options, visit https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgroups.google.com%2Fd%2Foptout&data=01%7C01%7Csorkin%40amnh.org%7C90c5fe780461476148e708d6eb8257cf%7Cbe0003e8c6b9496883aeb34586974b76%7C0&sdata=SAnoH8F0DD5BHl1pAQsgdVr6lRkUbiEnYwPOTqvB3JQ%3D&reserved=0. -- 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]<mailto:[email protected]>. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/pestlist. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pestlist/BN8PR14MB3170533304577630A6E20118A6100%40BN8PR14MB3170.namprd14.prod.outlook.com<https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pestlist/BN8PR14MB3170533304577630A6E20118A6100%40BN8PR14MB3170.namprd14.prod.outlook.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. 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]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/pestlist. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pestlist/6277F09B-3E46-482D-AD0E-408E175848FF%40princeton.edu. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
