Hi, Todd, can' t quite tell whether it has enough bristles for Anthrenus verbasci?
Good luck, Corinna > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 09. Oktober 2019 um 18:02 Uhr > Von: "Todd Holmberg" <[email protected]> > An: [email protected] > Betreff: [pestlist] Larva Casing > > Hello Everyone, > > An object came in that had evidence of past moth activity. The object is > made of wood and leather, and the moth activity was on the leather part > where there were still traces of animal hair. In the packaging, we found > this larva casing. It is fairly small (approx 1/8"), and at first glance I > thought it was some sort of carpet beetle larva. However, under the > microscope, it looks a little different than the carpet beetle larva I have > seen in the past (seems to have less stiff bristly hair). > > The theory right now is that it was something in the carpet beetle family > that was there connected to the moth issue that was going on with the piece > (possibly there feeding on the frass/casing/moth remains?). However, there > were also wood elements involved with the object, so I thought I would toss > these pictures out to the group to see if anyone out there maybe recognizes > this larva casing and could confirm/deny if it was a dermestid or > possibly something connected to wood issues (there didn't really seem to be > any evidence of active wood boring beetle damage on the object). > > Any thoughts 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 to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pestlist/CAMxAh%2BhCykwi0N0SC9PG3K6Kw-ffW4N%2BBaGMFg6APAOWKGZkmg%40mail.gmail.com. > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pestlist/trinity-c5621332-e863-4c0b-9762-7cf8fd8ef389-1570641965307%403c-app-gmx-bs60.
