RE: [pestlist] beetle ID help needed

2016-07-08 Thread Dee Stubbs-Lee 

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.
---





Interesting, thanks Tom.

Dee

From: pestlist-ow...@museumpests.net [mailto:pestlist-ow...@museumpests.net] On 
Behalf Of bugman22
Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2016 9:37 PM
To: pestlist@museumpests.net
Subject: Re: [pestlist] beetle ID help needed

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.
---
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 
>
To: pestlist >
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 this list send it as an email to 
pestlist@museumpests.net
To unsubscribe look at the footer of this email.
---
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




-
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"
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

RE: [pestlist] beetle ID help needed

2016-07-08 Thread Dee Stubbs-Lee 

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, that’s helpful!
Dee

From: pestlist-ow...@museumpests.net [mailto:pestlist-ow...@museumpests.net] On 
Behalf Of Insect Identification Services Ltd
Sent: Friday, July 08, 2016 7:26 AM
To: pestlist@museumpests.net
Subject: Re: [pestlist] beetle ID help needed

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.
---
​Megan is correct - the first trap is one of the Rove beetle species 
(Coleoptera: Staphylinidae)

all beetles on the second trap are all Ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae), 
the two 'bronzey' examples (bottom left and middle) are Carabus sp. and the one 
top right another carabid species. All are incidentals and of no pest status, 
but if these large beetles can get in then so can other potentially pest 
species so screening on ground floor windows and bristle strips on bottoms of 
doors would be worth considering.

All the best,

Stuart
--
Stuart Hine
Entomological Consultant

[http://i682.photobucket.com/albums/vv189/bombuslucorum1/High%20Res%20Logo_zpsa9axq9kw.jpg]

Web: http://www.insectidentification.co.uk/
Email:   i...@insectidentification.co.uk
Tel:   +44 7392 854405

On 7 July 2016 at 21:00, Dee Stubbs-Lee 
> 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.
---
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





-
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




--
Stuart Hine
Entomological Consultant

[http://i682.photobucket.com/albums/vv189/bombuslucorum1/High%20Res%20Logo_zpsa9axq9kw.jpg]

Web: http://www.insectidentification.co.uk/
Email:   i...@insectidentification.co.uk
Tel:   +44 7392 854405


-
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"
Any problems email l...@zaks.com

Re: [pestlist] beetle ID help needed

2016-07-08 Thread Insect Identification Services Ltd 

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.
---



​Megan is correct - the first trap is one of the Rove beetle species
(Coleoptera: Staphylinidae)

all beetles on the second trap are all Ground beetles (Coleoptera:
Carabidae), the two 'bronzey' examples (bottom left and middle) are Carabus
sp. and the one top right another carabid species. All are incidentals and
of no pest status, but if these large beetles can get in then so can other
potentially pest species so screening on ground floor windows and bristle
strips on bottoms of doors would be worth considering.

All the best,

Stuart

-- 
*Stuart Hine*
Entomological Consultant


Web: http://www.insectidentification.co.uk/
Email:   i...@insectidentification.co.uk
Tel:   +44 7392 854405

On 7 July 2016 at 21:00, Dee Stubbs-Lee  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.
> ---
>
> 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
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> -
> 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
>
>
>
>



-- 
*Stuart Hine*
Entomological Consultant


Web: http://www.insectidentification.co.uk/
Email:   i...@insectidentification.co.uk
Tel:   +44 7392 854405


-
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