No, the adult dermestid beetle flew directly to the cockroach, laid eggs on the cockroach, and then flew away. Tom Parker In a message dated 2/18/2020 10:29:17 AM Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes:
Greetings, I've experienced that a few times. The most fascinating was an incident where I watched a cockroach enter a museum through the front door, and I chased it to try to kill it. It walked right into a trap by a window, so I left it. A week later when I did my monthly inspections, I found two dermestid larvae eating that same cockroach, starting from the rear and working their way towards the head. I assume the cockroach was alive for most of that. Dermestid larvae seem to be able to walk on the adhesive from Bell Laboratories traps. Thank you, Michael R. On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 8:06 AM Alan P Van Dyke <[email protected]> wrote: Hello everyone, This isn't an identification request, just something I thought was interesting and wanted to share. Apparently a spider wandered into this trap, and something else later came along and stayed in the non-sticky portion and feasted away! Whatever it was also managed to slip out the side. -- 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/CAKMK8iHAB2AZeZmKuwvdyxb%2BHFdWR2BHixrqVC-Nk01Oni16rA%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/603653441.4646333.1582045504715%40mail.yahoo.com.
