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Linda, which of the Melinex film types is ordinarily used in your work? Forrest > 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 Amber, > > A piece of Melinex over the top will seal the stickiness and still allow > the > insects to be viewed. > > > > Regards > > Linda > > > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Morgan, Amber > Sent: 18 February 2013 16:13 > To: [email protected] > Subject: [pestlist] FW: spider identification > > > > 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 Louis, > > > > Thanks for the info – I’m sending better photos with a ruler for scale. > The > spiders are less than 1/16th of an inch long. We have not seen any webs > yet. The areas we’ve found them in don’t have windows, so I’m not sure > where to look, but it’s possible we are vacuuming them up before we get a > chance to see them. If you’d really like me to send you one I can, but > they > are all stuck on sticky traps so I’m not sure how well they will travel. > > > Generally spiders don’t trouble me, but this increase in tiny spider > population makes me wonder if there is something else going on that is > attracting them. > > > > Thanks, > > Amber > > > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Louis Sorkin > Sent: Friday, February 15, 2013 6:23 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [pestlist] FW: spider identification > > > > 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 is a male spider, but I was looking at a postage stamp size image and > now > I’m wondering if it’s possible, Amber, to send some over for examination > just to be sure. > > > > Louis N. Sorkin, B.C.E. > > Entomologist, Arachnologist > > Division of Invertebrate Zoology > > American Museum of Natural History > > Central Park West at 79th Street > > New York, New York 10024-5192 > > [email protected] > > 212-769-5613 voice > > 212-769-5277 fax > > > > The New York Entomological Society, Inc. > > www.nyentsoc.org <http://www.nyentsoc.org/> > > [email protected] > > > > > > > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Louis Sorkin > Sent: Friday, February 15, 2013 5:29 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [pestlist] RE: spider identification > > > > 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. > ----------------------------------------------------------- > > That’s a male. You can tell by the modified, enlarged palpi. > > It is a member of the family Oecobiidae. Most likely, depending on where > you > live, either > > Oecobius navus Blackwall, 1859....................Cosmopolitan or > > Oecobius cellariorum (Dugès, 1836) *....................Cosmopolitan > > The species are quite common indoors, often in a distinctive kind of web > near window frames. Web consists of 2 thin, silken sheets connected by > some > silk lines radiating from the sheets to act as trip lines. The spider > lives > between the two sheets, residing on the lower one. Webs can be along > window > frames, ceilings, walls, floors, sort of edges where structures come > together. The common name is flatmesh weavers. Has a cribellum (in front > of > spinnerets) and anal tubercle with a brush of special bristles that aid in > spreading the silk from the posterior spinnerets as it encircles prey. It > has a distinctive shape to its body and leg attachment and display. > Distinctive looking cephalothorax, eye structure and arrangement. Prey > capture behavior very interesting. They often feed on ants. Have you > seen > booklice in the webs? > > > > Louis N. Sorkin, B.C.E. > > Entomologist, Arachnologist > > Division of Invertebrate Zoology > > American Museum of Natural History > > Central Park West at 79th Street > > New York, New York 10024-5192 > > [email protected] > > 212-769-5613 voice > > 212-769-5277 fax > > > > The New York Entomological Society, Inc. > > www.nyentsoc.org <http://www.nyentsoc.org/> > > [email protected] > > > > > > > > > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Morgan, Amber > Sent: Friday, February 15, 2013 4:54 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [pestlist] spider identification > > > > 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. > ----------------------------------------------------------- > > Hello List, > > > > We’ve seen a few of these tiny spiders on our sticky traps. We find them > in > an area that tends to have higher humidity and a (slowly decreasing) > population of psocids. We’d like to find out more info about this spider > – > if it’s specifically drawn to humidity or psocids, or if it’s an > indication > of some other, as-of-yet-undiscovered issue. > > > > Thanks! > Amber > > > > the warhol: > Amber E. 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