Those look like some sort of minute brown scavenger beetle to me. They are fungus feeders.
Alan *Alan Van Dyke * Senior Preservation Technician Harry Ransom Center The University of Texas at Austin P.O. Drawer 7219 Austin, Texas 78713-7219 P: 512-232-4614 www.hrc.utexas.edu <http://hrc.utexas.edu> On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 2:17 PM Watts, Angela B <awa...@ku.edu> wrote: > Hello all! > > > > I was wondering if any of you may be able to help identify these tiny > beetles that one of my colleagues found in a sticky trap. I don’t currently > have any more detailed photos, but they are about 1-2mm long. They were > found in a supplies storage room in the lower level of the building. There > is a sink on the opposite side of the room and there had been a leak in the > room last spring/summer, but there have not been any other moisture > problems recently. We are located in Northeast Kansas. > > > > Thanks everyone! > > Angela > > > > Angela Watts > > Collection Manager > > Spencer Museum of Art > > University of Kansas > > 785-864-4979 > > awa...@ku.edu > > > > -- > 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 view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pestlist/SA0PR01MB6169DB6CE433FFD3FFBD2C93BAAA0%40SA0PR01MB6169.prod.exchangelabs.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pestlist/SA0PR01MB6169DB6CE433FFD3FFBD2C93BAAA0%40SA0PR01MB6169.prod.exchangelabs.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pestlist/CAHhLO3ZiY3ZVtdCWB_0YNmDTwaHXFUF8fQt6aWvML3_YArvBEQ%40mail.gmail.com.
