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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<mailto: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<mailto:i...@insectidentification.co.uk> Tel: +44 7392 854405 On 7 July 2016 at 21:00, Dee Stubbs-Lee <dee.stubbs-...@nbm-mnb.ca<mailto:dee.stubbs-...@nbm-mnb.ca>> wrote: This is a message from the Museumpests.net List. To post to this list send it as an email to pestlist@museumpests.net<mailto: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<mailto:imail...@museumpests.net> and in the body put: "unsubscribe pestlist" Any problems email l...@zaks.com<mailto: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<mailto:i...@insectidentification.co.uk> Tel: +44 7392 854405 ------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list send an email to imail...@museumpests.net<mailto:imail...@museumpests.net> and in the body put: "unsubscribe pestlist" Any problems email l...@zaks.com<mailto: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