Greetings, I have seen them through microscopes actually walking on the adhesive. The traps were manufactured about three years prior to use, but other pests were stuck without issue.
I also found a black widow spider in a room with window issues, and tried to get it to go onto a trap, but it managed to walk over the adhesive and out the other side. Thank you, Michael R. <[email protected]> On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 10:05 AM 'bugman22' via Museumpests < [email protected]> wrote: > 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/CAKMK8iECb7iLYMcn%2B-r1qvkgQJAPeSZX%2BOPOWRBmaZR1pqEChw%40mail.gmail.com.
