RE: [pestlist] FW: Bug

2017-12-29 Thread Lisa Bruno 

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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.



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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
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Norwich
Norfolk NR2 3PH
England
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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


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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

RE: [pestlist] FW: Bug

2017-12-29 Thread Lisa Bruno 

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THANKS!

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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

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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




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Re: [pestlist] FW: Bug

2017-12-29 Thread Tony Irwin 

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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

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> 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*
>
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>
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>
> Senior Environmental Public Health Officer
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>
> 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>
> wrote:
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> 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
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Re: [pestlist] FW: Bug

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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
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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

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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




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RE: [pestlist] FW: Bug

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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.

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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

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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




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Re: [pestlist] FW: Bug

2017-12-29 Thread Todd Holmberg 

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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

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Re: [pestlist] FW: Bug

2017-12-29 Thread Thomas Parker 

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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
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