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. ----------------------------------------------------------- You are doing the right thing - checking the collection. The first thing is not to panic - just collect data and keep your eye open. You might take one of the specimens that you suspect might be infested and isolate it - see if something happens - put it in a plastic bag and keep your eye on it.
Good luck. Gretchen Anderson Conservator Carnegie Museum of Natural History 5800 Baum Blvd Pittsburgh, PA 15202 Phone (412)665-2607 [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> http://www.carnegiemnh.org From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Suellen Jacob Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2014 1:52 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [pestlist] RE: Pest damage identification This is a message from the Museumpests List. To post to this list send it as an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> To unsubscribe please look at the footer of this email. ----------------------------------------------------------- Gretchen: That's why I'm so disconcerted about this - I don't normally see any other evidence. Once I found a moth in one of the cabinets where a damaged specimen was, but I didn't save it (dumb!). I'll put sticky traps in the affected cabinets. I have some on the floor, but they don't catch anything that I think would be causing this. Perhaps there is no active infestation - I am relatively new here, and I found these on my second check over the entire collection. Maybe they were missed the first time around. Thanks for your advice! -Suellen From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Anderson, Gretchen Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2014 10:38 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [pestlist] RE: Pest damage identification This is a message from the Museumpests List. To post to this list send it as an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> To unsubscribe please look at the footer of this email. ----------------------------------------------------------- Hi Suellen, Have you seen any dead bugs? Cast larval skins? It is extremely difficult to identify the pest without seeing frass, dead (or living) bugs. Post pictures if you do. One thing you probably should do is to place sticky (blunder) traps in the vicinity of the specimens - both in cabinets or boxes they are stored in, on shelves and floor. Check your traps regularly to see what you have. In that way you will be able to better develop a strategy, and you will be able to determine if the infestation is active or not. Gretchen Anderson Conservator Carnegie Museum of Natural History 5800 Baum Blvd Pittsburgh, PA 15202 Phone (412)665-2607 [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> http://www.carnegiemnh.org From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Suellen Jacob Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2014 10:57 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [pestlist] Pest damage identification This is a message from the Museumpests List. To post to this list send it as an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> To unsubscribe please look at the footer of this email. ----------------------------------------------------------- Hi all, A few of our bird and mammal specimens have damage I think comes from pests. It takes the form of "pits" about 4 mm wide in specimen skin with gray crumbly material inside. I've attached 2 photos. Does anybody know what caused it? Thanks, Suellen Suellen Jacob Vertebrate Collections Manager Department of Biological Sciences California State University, Long Beach [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To send an email to the list, send your msg to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> To unsubscribe from this list send an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> and in the subject put: "unsubscribe" - no quotes please. You are receiving the Pestlist emails in standard mode. 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