Re: [pestlist] Fly damage on a book

[Richard Pollack]

This is a message from the Museumpests List. To post to this list send it as an email to pestlist@museumpests.net To unsubscribe please look at the footer of this email. ----------------------------------------------------------- Pascal, I think you're right about these being fly feces. I've conducted considerable research on house flies and other filth flies throughout the Middle East and elsewhere. Our own notebooks, papers, clothing and other items quickly were transformed to resemble the damage on the book you imaged. Damage from termites would tend to be far more significant. Cockroaches may also chew on the edges of pages and also leave their feces behind. Last but not least, book lice are likely to cause some damage, but what you've depicted appears to me to have resulted from flies and / or cockroaches. Regards, Rich Richard Pollack, PhD.  CEO & Chief Scientific Officer  IdentifyUS, LLC 320 Needham Street  Suite 200  Newton, MA 02464-1593 ------------------  617.600.6360  (W) 617.513.9266  (M)       Instructor, Harvard School of Public Health Visiting Researcher, Boston University On Mar 6, 2014, at 10:44, Pascal Querner <pascal.quer...@gmx.at> wrote: This is a message from the Museumpests List. To post to this list send it as an email to pestlist@museumpests.net To unsubscribe please look at the footer of this email. ----------------------------------------------------------- Hi,   has anyone seen such a damage on a book before?? The book is about 300 years old and was transported from Yemen to Austria long time ago and is now in the national library. I think it looks like fly droppings but I am happy for other suggestions!! We have no idea why this book was so attractive for the flies. The spots can be removed mechanically and have a small relief, bus some stains remain.   Thank you very much,   Pascal ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To send an email to the list, send your msg to pestlist@museumpests.Net To unsubscribe from this list send an email to pestlist@museumpests.net and in the subject put: "unsubscribe" - no quotes please. You are receiving the Pestlist emails in standard mode. To change to the DIGEST mode send an email to imail...@museumpests.net with this command in the body: set mode digest pestlist Any problems email l...@collectionpests.com or l...@zaks.com<HAD_Cod.Gl.2a_kac (15)verkleinert.jpg><HAD_Cod.Gl.2a_kac (16)verkleinert.jpg><HAD_Cod.Gl.2a_kac (20)verkleinert.jpg><HAD_Cod.Gl.2a_kac (27)verkleinert.jpg> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To send an email to the list, send your msg to pestlist@museumpests.Net To unsubscribe from this list send an email to pestlist@museumpests.net and in the subject put: "unsubscribe" - no quotes please. You are receiving the Pestlist emails in standard mode. To change to the DIGEST mode send an email to imail...@museumpests.net with this command in the body: set mode digest pestlist Any problems email l...@collectionpests.com or l...@zaks.com