Re: [PestList] Clothes moth in office

I hope we don't have mice. On Thu, Oct 27, 2022 at 1:18 PM 'bugman22' via MuseumPests < pestlist@googlegroups.com> wrote: > Christina - > > I forgot to mention, I've seen several situations where mice easily pop > out of these temporary, hollow walls and travel from one cubicle to the > next

Re: [PestList] Clothes moth in office

Christina - I forgot to mention, I've seen several situations where mice easily pop out of these temporary, hollow walls and travel from one cubicle to the next on top of the walls.  Often the upright supports for these walls are hollow and open at the top, allowing mice to run on top  wherever

Re: [PestList] Clothes moth in office

Group - Webbing clothes moth larvae will feed on anything with keratin in it.  Such as, carcasses, horn, hair, finger nails, fur, wool, wool felt, woolen carpets, and any garment made of wool, Oriental carpets, taxidermy mounts, embroidery, and very rarely silk.  In the case of cubicles, as

Re: [PestList] Clothes moth in office

Hello - I actually also found remains of dermestids under cubicle walls, and it was fairly dusty. Most of the food we found was carbohydrate (bread crusts, raisins, a lot of M). I only pulled dust/refuse out of a few areas to really look at, the office spaces are the entire third floor. So far

Re: [PestList] Clothes moth in office

Christina- Thanks for the heads up regarding your experience with the cubicle walls- "real life/specific" examples like this where institutions are seeing moths in offices are so valuable to be mindful of when investigating potential causes. Regarding the "food" part of the email. I have always

Re: [PestList] Anthrenus id

That’s what it looks like to me! Madeline Corona (she/her) Associate Conservator, Decorative Arts and Sculpture Conservation Getty Museum T (310) 440 7261 | getty.edu [../../Getty_Logo_EmailSig.png] From: pestlist@googlegroups.com on behalf of Cristina Rufino Date:

Re: [PestList] Clothes moth in office

Hello - We've dealt with a similar issue at my institution with webbing clothes moths in office areas - I'm just mentioning in case it helps anyone else. We found the source of the infestation was actually under the cubicle walls - with people eating at their desks, food that fell onto the floor

Re: [PestList] Clothes moth in office

Tonya - As an IPM consultant, I've dealt with these types of situations in museums and other situations on numerous occasions over many years.   If you are located in the U.S., you can close up the room, seal off the AC/Heat registers, and use Nuvan Pest Strips hung as high as possible.  The

[PestList] Clothes moth in office

Hello all, We just discovered a clothes moth outbreak in a rarely used office in our building. There are no specimens in this office, and I am not quite sure what they are eating - casings are around the edge of the carpet, which I do not think is wool. Perhaps they are feeding on dead insects