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Gretchen - Thanks for your interest. Two leak situations I've been involved with were a roof leak and a wall leak. Both seemed to still be producing beetles after the mold had dried out. That's why I'm interested in advice and comments from others. Thanks again. Tom Parker -----Original Message----- From: Anderson, Gretchen <[email protected]> To: pestlist <[email protected]> Sent: Thu, Jul 12, 2012 12:11 pm Subject: RE: [pestlist] Help with ID This is a message from the Museumpests List. To post to this list send it as an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe please look at the footer of this email. ----------------------------------------------------------- Hi Tom – I recently went through the precise scenario that you described – leak in roof – wall, serious infestation of plaster beetles. The building has been repaired. The repairs to the wall the exterior wall were made about last Fall. There were still live plaster beetles when we made repairs to the HVAC and cleaned the interior of the inside the case. Since that time I have not noticed any activity in the case. It is a large case (room actually) built (literally boat sized – holds a 3,000 (+/-) year old Egyptian boat) and the water damage was in the far back corner. The case is difficult get into but I will try to get in next week and let you know what is going on at this point. Gretchen From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2012 8:07 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [pestlist] Help with ID This is a message from the Museumpests List. To post to this list send it as an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe please look at the footer of this email. ----------------------------------------------------------- Group - Here's a question for those of you who may have had an occasion to battle a heavy infestation of plaster beetles: Let's say there's a roof leak causing a mold bloom, hence an uprising of plaster beetles. Then the leak is repaired; the mold no longer grows, but a billion spores are left behind. Can plaster beetles still survive and reproduce in the dried out mold by the larvae eating the spores and mycelia? Or once the mold is dried out, is that the end of the reproduction and slowly the adults will die off? Any thoughts? Tom Parker -----Original Message----- From: Jonathan Brown <[email protected]> To: pestlist <[email protected]> Sent: Wed, Jul 11, 2012 7:41 pm Subject: Re: [pestlist] Help with ID This is a message from the Museumpests List. To post to this list send it as an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe please look at the footer of this email. ----------------------------------------------------------- It's a Latridiid, and I concur on Adistemia. Depending on the trap location, two may not be indicative of an infestation. These guys don't need much to eat and can hang around a long time after the conditions that triggered the initial mold growth are remediated. JP Brown Regenstein Conservator for Pacific Anthropology The Field Museum 1400 S Lake Shore Dr Chicago, IL 60615 t: +1 (312) 665-7879 On Jul 11, 2012, at 4:20 PM, Tony Irwin <[email protected]> wrote: This is a message from the Museumpests List. To post to this list send it as an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe please look at the footer of this email. ----------------------------------------------------------- Adistemia watsoni - one of the Plaster Beetles (Latridiidae). It is sometimes known as the Household Fungus Beetle. So you have mould somewhere. Getting rid of the mould will get rid of the beetle infestation. Tony Irwin Dr A.G.Irwin, 47 The Avenues Norwich Norfolk NR2 3PH Tel: 01603 453524 Mobile: 07880707834 E-mail: [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Denise Migdail Sent: 11 July 2012 21:32 To: [email protected] Subject: [pestlist] Help with ID This is a message from the Museumpests List. To post to this list send it as an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe please look at the footer of this email. ----------------------------------------------------------- Tiny orange insect (beetle?), Total length is a little less than 2 mm. We have found several of these small insects in different blunder traps located on our basement level. 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