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This is a message from the Museumpests.net List. To post to this list send it as an email to pestlist@museumpests.net To unsubscribe look at the footer of this email. --- This is great thank you. Ironically – it was located on a wall – on the 6th floor of our old, pre-war building. We are working on an internal PSA for staff – to increase buy in – and the image of an insect crawling on a wall next to a photograph – is helpful – sadly. Lisa Bruno Carol Lee Shen Chief Conservator Brooklyn Museum 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY 11238-6052 P 718-501-6562 brooklynmuseum.org<https://www.brooklynmuseum.org> Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/brooklynmuseum> | Twitter<https://twitter.com/brooklynmuseum> | Instagram<https://www.instagram.com/brooklynmuseum> | Tumblr<https://brooklynmuseum.tumblr.com> From: pestlist-ow...@museumpests.net [mailto:pestlist-ow...@museumpests.net] On Behalf Of Tony Irwin Sent: Friday, December 29, 2017 1:32 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. --- This particular species is Porcellionides pruinosus, a woodlouse that is normally associated with manure heaps or compost heaps, but is occasionally found under stones, etc. A check on the grounds around the building may indicate its origin. Dr A.G.Irwin 47 The Avenues Norwich Norfolk NR2 3PH England mobile: +44(0)7880707834 phone: +44(0)1603 453524 On 29 December 2017 at 17:51, Pollack, Richard J mailto:richard_poll...@harvard.edu>> 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. --- As others have concluded, this is an isopod. Most likely, it wandered in beneath a door, through a non-sealed utility penetration, or was a stowaway on a box or within potted plants brought into the facility. With few exceptions, isopods are inconsequential. They'll perish from desiccation in a matter of days or so, unless they're in a basement or other site where it is particularly humid, or where there's a ready source of water. These do feast upon organic matter. One isopod won't likely cause damage to artifacts within a museum. Damage can, indeed, become a concern if you regularly find these in museum exhibit or storage areas. Such observations should stimulate efforts to limit their entrance and survival. Check exterior doors to ensure that the door bottoms seal well. If you can see light beneath the door, then the door isn't secure against pests. Then, check ground level windows and utility penetrations. Sealing up any openings will be a sustainable, environmentally appropriate and fiscally prudent strategy. -Rich Richard J. Pollack, PhD HARVARD UNIVERSITY Environmental Health, Safety and Emergency Management (EHSEM) Senior Environmental Public Health Officer 46 Blackstone St.<https://maps.google.com/?q=46+Blackstone+St.%0D+%0D+Cambridge,+MA+02139%0D+%0D+*Office*:+617&entry=gmail&source=g> Cambridge, MA 02139<https://maps.google.com/?q=46+Blackstone+St.%0D+%0D+Cambridge,+MA+02139%0D+%0D+*Office*:+617&entry=gmail&source=g> Office<https://maps.google.com/?q=46+Blackstone+St.%0D+%0D+Cambridge,+MA+02139%0D+%0D+*Office*:+617&entry=gmail&source=g>: 617-495-2995 Cell: 617-447-0763 www.ehs.harvard.edu<http://www.ehs.harvard.edu> richard_poll...@harvard.edu<mailto:richard_poll...@harvard.edu> HARVARD T.H. CHAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH Instructor, Department of Immunology & Infectious Diseases From: pestlist-ow...@museumpests.net<mailto:pestlist-ow...@museumpests.net> mailto:pestlist-ow...@museumpests.net>> on behalf of JP Brown mailto:jpbr...@fieldmuseum.org>> Sent: Friday, December 29, 2017 12:34:42 PM To: pestlist@museumpests.net<mailto: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 mailto:lisa.br...@bro
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 To unsubscribe look at the footer of this email. --- THANKS! Lisa Bruno Carol Lee Shen Chief Conservator Brooklyn Museum 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY 11238-6052 P 718-501-6562 brooklynmuseum.org<https://www.brooklynmuseum.org> Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/brooklynmuseum> | Twitter<https://twitter.com/brooklynmuseum> | Instagram<https://www.instagram.com/brooklynmuseum> | Tumblr<https://brooklynmuseum.tumblr.com> 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 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
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 To unsubscribe look at the footer of this email. --- This particular species is *Porcellionides pruinosus*, a woodlouse that is normally associated with manure heaps or compost heaps, but is occasionally found under stones, etc. A check on the grounds around the building may indicate its origin. Dr A.G.Irwin 47 The Avenues Norwich Norfolk NR2 3PH England mobile: +44(0)7880707834 phone: +44(0)1603 453524 On 29 December 2017 at 17:51, Pollack, Richard J < richard_poll...@harvard.edu> wrote: > This is a message from the Museumpests.net List. > To post to this list send it as an email to pestlist@museumpests.net > To unsubscribe look at the footer of this email. > --- > > As others have concluded, this is an isopod. Most likely, it wandered in > beneath a door, through a non-sealed utility penetration, or was a stowaway > on a box or within potted plants brought into the facility. With few > exceptions, isopods are inconsequential. They'll perish from desiccation in > a matter of days or so, unless they're in a basement or other site where it > is particularly humid, or where there's a ready source of water. > > > These do feast upon organic matter. One isopod won't likely cause damage > to artifacts within a museum. Damage can, indeed, become a concern if you > regularly find these in museum exhibit or storage areas. Such observations > should stimulate efforts to limit their entrance and survival. Check > exterior doors to ensure that the door bottoms seal well. If you can see > light beneath the door, then the door isn't secure against pests. Then, > check ground level windows and utility penetrations. Sealing up any > openings will be a sustainable, environmentally appropriate and fiscally > prudent strategy. > > > -Rich > > > *Richard J. Pollack, PhD* > > *HARVARD UNIVERSITY* > > Environmental Health, Safety and Emergency Management (EHSEM) > > Senior Environmental Public Health Officer > > 46 Blackstone St. > <https://maps.google.com/?q=46+Blackstone+St.%0D+%0D+Cambridge,+MA+02139%0D+%0D+*Office*:+617&entry=gmail&source=g> > > Cambridge, MA 02139 > <https://maps.google.com/?q=46+Blackstone+St.%0D+%0D+Cambridge,+MA+02139%0D+%0D+*Office*:+617&entry=gmail&source=g> > > *Office > <https://maps.google.com/?q=46+Blackstone+St.%0D+%0D+Cambridge,+MA+02139%0D+%0D+*Office*:+617&entry=gmail&source=g>*: > 617-495-2995 <(617)%20495-2995> *Cell*: 617-447-0763 <(617)%20447-0763> > > www.ehs.harvard.edu > > richard_poll...@harvard.edu > > > > *HARVARD T.H. CHAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH* > > Instructor, Department of Immunology & Infectious Diseases > -- > *From:* pestlist-ow...@museumpests.net > on behalf of JP Brown > *Sent:* Friday, December 29, 2017 12:34:42 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 > 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 > wrote: > > > This is a message from the Museumpests.net List. > To post to this list send it as an email to 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 > <https://maps.google.com/?q=200+Eastern+Parkway,+Brooklyn,+NY+11238&entry=gmail&source=g> > -6052 > P 718-501-6562 <(718)%20501-6562> > > > > > - > 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 > > &
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 To unsubscribe look at the footer of this email. --- As others have concluded, this is an isopod. Most likely, it wandered in beneath a door, through a non-sealed utility penetration, or was a stowaway on a box or within potted plants brought into the facility. With few exceptions, isopods are inconsequential. They'll perish from desiccation in a matter of days or so, unless they're in a basement or other site where it is particularly humid, or where there's a ready source of water. These do feast upon organic matter. One isopod won't likely cause damage to artifacts within a museum. Damage can, indeed, become a concern if you regularly find these in museum exhibit or storage areas. Such observations should stimulate efforts to limit their entrance and survival. Check exterior doors to ensure that the door bottoms seal well. If you can see light beneath the door, then the door isn't secure against pests. Then, check ground level windows and utility penetrations. Sealing up any openings will be a sustainable, environmentally appropriate and fiscally prudent strategy. -Rich Richard J. Pollack, PhD HARVARD UNIVERSITY Environmental Health, Safety and Emergency Management (EHSEM) Senior Environmental Public Health Officer 46 Blackstone St. Cambridge, MA 02139 Office: 617-495-2995 Cell: 617-447-0763 www.ehs.harvard.edu richard_poll...@harvard.edu<mailto:richard_poll...@harvard.edu> HARVARD T.H. CHAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH Instructor, Department of Immunology & Infectious Diseases From: pestlist-ow...@museumpests.net on behalf of JP Brown Sent: Friday, December 29, 2017 12:34:42 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 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 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 and in the 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" OR just send an email to l...@zaks.com and ask to be removed. Any problems email l...@zaks.com
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 To unsubscribe look at the footer of this email. --- 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 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
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 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 wrote: > > This is a message from the Museumpests.net List. > To post to this list send it as an email to 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 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 -- 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 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
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 To unsubscribe look at the footer of this email. --- My guess would be a "sowbug". If that is what it is, my understanding is they are not a threat to artwork. It can be common for them to come in through cracks in a foundation. -Todd On Fri, Dec 29, 2017 at 11:04 AM, Lisa Bruno wrote: > > This is a message from the Museumpests.net List. > To post to this list send it as an email to 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 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 - 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
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 To unsubscribe look at the footer of this email. --- Hi Lisa. Happy New Year! Your critter is a sow bug. Came in from the cold. May have been in a sheltered area somewhere in the museum and decided to take a stroll. Not a museum threat. Carpet beetle larvae don’t seem to eat their carcasses. Tom Parker 610-348-9890 Cell Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 29, 2017, at 12:04 PM, Lisa Bruno > wrote: > > > This is a message from the Museumpests.net List. > To post to this list send it as an email to 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 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 > > > > Sent from my iPhone - 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