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Hello Tamar, It certainly bears a resemblance to a clothes moth. As most museums typically don’t de-flesh our collections I am not entirely familiar with the cycle of insects and corpses. The fleshed bones you put into the colony, were they fresh? Maybe something that had been sitting around for a while outside? I have heard that after all the usual non-museum flies and beetles get at a dead animal you’ll see things like clothes moths arrive. If the bones were exposed and partially decomposed it’s possible that clothes moth larva found their way onto it and are only now being noticed as they hit adulthood. Another possibility is, if the colony isn’t sealed up, that the larva were deposited after the bones entered the colony. Have you seen any other clothes moth activity in the general area? As I don’t have any real experience with de-fleshing bones, hopefully this helps! William Shepherd Collections Officer Swift Current Museum 44 Robert Street West Swift Current, Saskatchewan S9H 4M9 Phone: 306-778-4815 Fax: 306-778-4818 From: pestlist-ow...@museumpests.net [mailto:pestlist-ow...@museumpests.net] On Behalf Of Tamar Danufsky Sent: September 27, 2017 4:48 PM To: pestlist@museumpests.net Subject: [pestlist] moth id This is a message from the Museumpests.net List. To post to this list send it as an email to pestlist@museumpests.net<mailto:pestlist@museumpests.net> To unsubscribe look at the footer of this email. ----------------------------------------------------------- Greetings, These moths have erupted in my dermestid colony. Wondering what they are and why they're there. There are only beetles and fleshed bones they are cleaning in the colony, no fur, feathers or skin. thanks! Tamar ****************************************************** Tamar Danufsky Museum Curator and Marine Wildlife Care Center Coordinator Wildlife Department Humboldt State University Arcata, CA 95521 phone (707)826-4034 fax (707)826-4060 www.humboldt.edu/wildmuseum<http://www.humboldt.edu/wildmuseum> www.humboldt.edu/mwcc<http://www.humboldt.edu/mwcc> ------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list send an email to imail...@museumpests.net<mailto:imail...@museumpests.net> and in the body put: "unsubscribe pestlist" Any problems email l...@zaks.com<mailto: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