Insects often lay eggs if they are about to die - as a last ditch effort to propagate. I suspect getting trapped caused the beetle to lay.
-Derek On Thu, Aug 9, 2018 at 8:45 PM, mprebm <mpr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Greetings, > > It has been an odd month for pests. For the first time ever, I found a > sun spider in a trap. One trap had a Scarites beetle, what appeared to be > a big-headed ground beetle based on the shape of the mandibles and the very > skinny waist, and the trap was full of eggs from the edge to the middle of > the trap, where the beetle laid stuck. I suspect it walked on to the trap > to lay eggs near a food source, and got caught and died. Is that common, > or is it incredibly rare? Scarites beetles are not known for being museum > pests. > > Thank you, > > Michael R. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Museumpests" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to pestlist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to pestlist@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > msgid/pestlist/4775630f-4902-4bd8-82fb-311cef48490d%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pestlist/4775630f-4902-4bd8-82fb-311cef48490d%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Derek S. Sikes, Curator of Insects Professor of Entomology University of Alaska Museum 1962 Yukon Drive Fairbanks, AK 99775-6960 dssi...@alaska.edu phone: 907-474-6278 FAX: 907-474-5469 University of Alaska Museum - search 400,276 digitized arthropod records http://arctos.database.museum/uam_ento_all <http://www.uaf.edu/museum/collections/ento/> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Interested in Alaskan Entomology? Join the Alaska Entomological Society and / or sign up for the email listserv "Alaska Entomological Network" at http://www.akentsoc.org/contact_us <http://www.akentsoc.org/contact.php> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Museumpests" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to pestlist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to pestlist@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pestlist/CAFV61VGAUD_PgyRpv_NOeUSrnSULcQyY-1%3Dx_jvR2BzvHjFqdQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
