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It’s an isopod. Commonly called a woodlouse or sowbug (as Todd noted). It’s not one that can roll itself into a perfect sphere, but can roll up a little. Usually roly-poly refers to those species that can ball up into spheres for defense. It’s from outdoors and come in around doorways, windows, up on walls, cracks in foundations, and live under rocks, logs, in leaf litter and mulch, etc. When these die (as in other arthropods as well) they become food for foraging dermestid beetle larvae. Louis N. Sorkin, B.C.E. Entomologist, Arachnologist, Myriapodologist Insect Cuisine & Entomophagy Research [cid:image001.png@01D235DF.2C8D90E0] Division of Invertebrate Zoology|American Museum of Natural History Central Park West at 79th Street|New York, New York 10024-5192 sor...@amnh.org<mailto:sor...@amnh.org> 212-769-5613 voice | 212-769-5277 fax | 917-953-0094 local pager http://www.amnh.org/our-research/staff-directory/louis-n.-sorkin [cid:image004.jpg@01D380A3.2E4B7CC0] The New York Entomological Society, Inc. www.nyentsoc.org<http://www.nyentsoc.org/> n...@amnh.org<mailto:n...@amnh.org> [cid:image001.png@01D110A0.A110F570] From: pestlist-ow...@museumpests.net [mailto:pestlist-ow...@museumpests.net] On Behalf Of JP Brown Sent: Friday, December 29, 2017 12:35 PM To: pestlist@museumpests.net Subject: Re: [pestlist] FW: Bug 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. ----------------------------------------------------------- Dear Lisa Looks like an isopod (not an expert, but possibly a rolypoly/woodlouse). Not a threat to collections. Unless someone has been moving rotting wood or leaf litter through the museum, it probably came from outside on somone’s shoes. Best JP On Friday, December 29, 2017, Lisa Bruno <lisa.br...@brooklynmuseum.org<mailto:lisa.br...@brooklynmuseum.org>> wrote: 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. ----------------------------------------------------------- This was found on a wall in a gallery. Does anyone have thoughts on its ID? Not something we've seen before. Thanks in advance. Lisa Bruno Carol Lee Shen Chief Conservator Brooklyn Museum 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY 11238-6052 P 718-501-6562 ------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list send an email to imail...@museumpests.net<mailto:imail...@museumpests.net> and in the body put: "unsubscribe pestlist" OR just send an email to l...@zaks.com<mailto:l...@zaks.com> and ask to be removed. Any problems email l...@zaks.com<mailto:l...@zaks.com> -- JP Brown Regenstein Conservator for Pacific Anthropology Gantz Family Collections Center The Field Museum 1400 S Lake Shore Drive Chicago, IL 60605 t: +1 312 665 7879 f: +1 312 665 7193 ------------------------------------------------------------- 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" OR just send an email to l...@zaks.com and ask to be removed. Any problems email l...@zaks.com
