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Dee - What you are catching on your glueboards means one thing; they are flying to lights affixed to your building at night, dropping down to the perimeter, and then walking into your building. It's time to tighten up your building's exterior envelope. Change your mercury vapor lights to sodium vapor ones. Tom Parker -----Original Message----- From: Dee Stubbs-Lee <dee.stubbs-...@nbm-mnb.ca> To: pestlist <pestlist@museumpests.net> Sent: Thu, Jul 7, 2016 4:02 pm Subject: [pestlist] beetle ID help needed This is a message from the Museumpests.net List. To post to thislist send it as an email to pestlist@museumpests.net To unsubscribe look atthe footer of thisemail. ----------------------------------------------------------- Hi everyone, I have recently had a few unwanted visitors in our basement level storage (primarily textiles and ethnographic materials). I have attached a couple of blunder trap images with a tape measure in centimeters for scale. I believe the first image shows a hide beetle, partially chewed by the adjacent smaller beetle (black carpet beetle?). Can anyone confirm? I have very occasionally had these before. On the second trap, the black one at the top I have also seen before and have been previously told it was a mealworm beetle. The two lower ones are new to me and appear to be the same species as each other. The photo doesn’t show it well, but they are an iridescent copper colour. These were on a common blunder trap that was near a pheromone trap for beetles (I’m experimenting) that has attracted larder beetles – may be a clue? Any thoughts? Thanks, Dee Dee Stubbs-Lee, CAPC, MA Conservator / Restauratrice New Brunswick Museum/ Musée du Nouveau-Brunswick 277 Douglas Avenue Saint John, New Brunswick E2K 1E5 Canada (506)643-2341 ------------------------------------------------------------- Tounsubscribe from this list send an email to imail...@museumpests.net and inthe body put: "unsubscribe pestlist" Any problems email l...@zaks.com ------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list send an email to imail...@museumpests.net and in the body put: "unsubscribe pestlist" Any problems email l...@zaks.com
