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If the images were a bit clearer... but anyway the beetles look like an anobiid of some sort, not dermestid beetle species. > Dear members of the pestlist > > Im the curator of a little a Museum in Switzerland, but not knowing much > about pests. It would be great if you can help me concerning a > bug-problem. > > At the moment, we show an exhibition about different phenomenas in the near nature environment of the museum (Kuesnacht, Switzerland). > > As the subject is nature, our designers decided to use nature materials > and I agreed to do so. Now, I wouldnt do it anymore > > Because: we now have bugs in the exhibition-room. A biologist told me that > they must be Anthrenus, probably Anthrenus verbasci. The grubs/worms must > be > in the wood we used and the bugs are lying near the window, most of them dead. > > As the removing of the wood would probably be the end of the exhibition (it > should actually not end before october ), I would like to know the risks and > the problems and what else I could do instead of removing the wood > > Fortunately we dont have our collection/museum-objects in this room except > some « dead birds ». And it wouldnt be a problem, if the worms will stay > in > the wood and eat this wood, in which theyve come into the museum. > > Do the worms eat only the bark of the wood will it be a big problem for > the room itself (wooden ceiling ), because now the bugs are lying their eggs > everywhere? And will they destroy the objects of our next exhibition in this > room? What are they eating actually? > > > What do I have to do concerning the room ? > > I send you a few pictures it would be great, if you could help me or tell > me who I could/should ask. > > A big « thankyou » in advance and please excuse my English > > Best regards > > Elisabeth Abgottspon > > > > > > (grundsätzlich am Dienstag, Mittwoch und Donnerstag im Ortsmuseum) > > Öffnungszeiten des Museums: Mittwoch, Samstag und Sonntag von 14 Uhr bis 17 > Uhr. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------- > > Elisabeth Abgottspon > Kuratorin/Museumsleiterin > Ortsmuseum Kuesnacht > Tobelweg 1 > 8700 Küsnacht > Tel. 0041 44 910 59 70 > > -- Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail Louis N. Sorkin, B.C.E. Entomology Section Division of Invertebrate Zoology American Museum of Natural History Central Park West at 79th Street New York, NY 10024-5192 phone: 212-769-5613 fax: 212-769-5277 email: [email protected] The New York Entomological Society, Inc. email: [email protected] web: www.nyentsoc.org Online journal from 2001 forward www.BioOne.org ------------------------------------------------------------- To send an email to the list, send your msg to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this list send an email to [email protected] and in the body put: "unsubscribe pestlist" Any problems email [email protected]
