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. ----------------------------------------------------------- Beetle lave, looks similar to carpet beetle lave.
Jess Wignell National Museum of Australia Paper and Textile Conservation Paper Conservator 02 62085162 From: ad...@museumpests.net [mailto:ad...@museumpests.net] On Behalf Of Betsy Bruemmer Sent: Tuesday, 11 March 2014 9:48 AM To: pestlist@museumpests.net Subject: [pestlist] beetle or millipede? This is a message from the Museumpests List. To post to this list send it as an email to pestlist@museumpests.net<mailto:pestlist@museumpests.net> To unsubscribe please look at the footer of this email. ----------------------------------------------------------- We had a recent invasion of small pests that I am having difficulty identifying. I thought they were carpet beetle larvae but an entomologist on bugguide.net has suggested bristle millipede. They were found crawling all over a white wall in a textile storage room, following a water leak through the exterior wall. We have in the past found old dried up dermestid casings on some of our textiles but we don't know if the textiles came in that way or if the evidence is due to recent activity. It's a huge collection that is just now being properly catalogued. There is surprisingly small amount of damage to the textiles overall so it seems more likely to me that these larvae came in through the leaky building envelope. The images for both these pests are quite similar, however, millipedes are not usually mentioned as museum pests and we have not seen adult millipedes to date but we did find one carpet beetle last year. Thanks for your help. BETSY bruemmer collections manager MOHAI Resource Center 5933 6th Avenue South Seattle, WA 98108 P: 206.324.1126 Ext. 122 | F: 206.780.1533 betsy.bruem...@mohai.org<mailto:betsy.bruem...@mohai.org> www.mohai.org<http://www.mohai.org> [cid:image002.png@01CEB874.6C8EAD50] Explore the people and events that made this city and changed the world, at the new Bezos Center for Innovation, now open at MOHAI! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To send an email to the list, send your msg to pestlist@museumpests.Net<mailto:pestlist@museumpests.Net> To unsubscribe from this list send an email to pestlist@museumpests.net<mailto: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<mailto:imail...@museumpests.net> with this command in the body: set mode digest pestlist Any problems email l...@collectionpests.com<mailto:l...@collectionpests.com> or l...@zaks.com<mailto:l...@zaks.com> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
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