Exciting! We are big fans of Tinea bisselliella, which is our most cultured moth (having consumed so much of our culture.)
Jacob Yanes (he/him/any) Conservation Technician The Huntington T: 626-544-0521 | E: [email protected] 1151 Oxford Rd, San Marino, CA 91108 [The Huntington Logo.png]<https://www.huntington.org/> The Huntington exists on the ancestral lands of the Gabrielino -Tongva and Kizh Nation peoples who continue to call this region home. The Huntington respectfully acknowledges these Indigenous peoples as the traditional caretakers of this landscape, as the direct descendants of the first people. The Huntington recognizes their continued presence and is grateful to have the opportunity to work and learn on this land. From: 'Novick, Isabel' via MuseumPests <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, October 1, 2025 8:29 AM To: Plarre, Rüdiger <[email protected]>; Jerome Regier <[email protected]>; Ryan St Laurent <[email protected]>; Akito Y. Kawahara <[email protected]>; Jasmine Alqassar <[email protected]>; Hannah Aichelman <[email protected]>; Kaeleen Chen <[email protected]>; James Fifer <[email protected]>; Do Rosario Petrucci, Bruno [EEOBS] <[email protected]>; [email protected]; Wells-Green, Theodore <[email protected]>; [email protected]; [email protected]; Jaskiel, Jacob <[email protected]>; Michael Sipser <[email protected]>; [email protected]; Vizer, Lili <[email protected]>; Vietorisz, Corinne <[email protected]>; Katie Arce <[email protected]>; Audrey Cohen <[email protected]>; Kerri Klugman <[email protected]>; [email protected]; Elizabeth W. Adams <[email protected]>; [email protected]; Laura Fontaine <[email protected]>; ellen fine <[email protected]>; Helena Hughes <[email protected]>; Lalitha Mantha <[email protected]>; Jessica Brown <[email protected]>; Radha Iyengar <[email protected]>; Kate Hutchinson <[email protected]>; Tom Burke <[email protected]>; Jeffrey Oakes <[email protected]>; [email protected]; Danielle Williams <[email protected]>; [email protected]; Rebecca Mahany-Horton <[email protected]>; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; Katie Barrett <[email protected]>; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; abiodun obembe <[email protected]>; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; Jason J. Dombroskie <[email protected]>; IDL Insect Diagnostic Lab <[email protected]>; 'Florence Fleury - Artena Heritage Preservation GmbH' via MuseumPests <[email protected]> Cc: Bushra M Hussaini <[email protected]>; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; Martinez, Ninon <[email protected]>; Castillo Cieza, Alejandra <[email protected]>; Swank, Ally <[email protected]>; Robinson, Abigail <[email protected]>; Camargo Cely, Alejandra <[email protected]>; [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: [PestList] Upcoming Clothes Moth Thesis Defense Dear friends, collaborators, and pesty people, I am writing to enthusiastically share my zoom link for my upcoming thesis defense. After 5.5 years, hundreds of hours, and seemingly unlimited support from all of you, I will finally be defending my PhD titled "Assessing the Evolution, Population Dynamics, and Identification Methods of Globally Distributed Synanthropic Pests in Lepidopteran Family Tineidae" on November 14th, 2025 at 1:00PM EST. So many of you have contributed your invaluable knowledge, writing expertise, and even the moths in your houses, and I wanted to share the exciting culmination of my research with you. My dissertation focuses on the human-associated moths in the family Tineidae, with a special focus on the well-known indoor pest, Tinea bisselliella, more commonly known as the webbing clothes moth. You may be more familiar with this species as genus Tineola; my first chapter (attached for your reading pleasure) proposes to synonymize this organism into genus Tinea. I won't give too many spoilers, so you can tune in to my defense to find out more about why! My second and third chapters may be of interest to the dozens of you who so kindly caught moths in your home or institution for me! This work primarily focuses on the relationships between populations of T. bisselliella across the globe, and addresses questions such as "how closely related are moths from different countries?", "how closely related are moths from different houses in the same town?" and "just how inbred are these moths, really?" Finally, my last chapter explores and compares the efficacy of current identification methods of moth pests, and examines the biodiversity of indoor moth pests in homes in the Boston area. Some of you have a lot of different moths in your house, and while that's NOT cool for you, it's very interesting for me (you have my sympathies though, as my house actually had the highest biodiversity with SIX PEST SPECIES)! If any of this interests you, please join me November 14, 1PM EST at this zoom link: Https://bostonu.zoom.us/my/inovick<https://bostonu.zoom.us/my/inovick> Lastly, I want to express my sincere gratitude towards all of you, without whom this work would not have been possible. Thank you so much for everything. All my very best, Isabel Novick [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> -- 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]>. 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