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Hello Tamar,
It certainly bears a resemblance to a clothes moth. As most
museums typically don’t de-flesh our collections I am not entirely familiar
with the cycle of insects and corpses. The fleshed bones you put into the
colony, were they fresh? Maybe something that had been sitting around for a
while outside? I have heard that after all the usual non-museum flies and
beetles get at a dead animal you’ll see things like clothes moths arrive. If
the bones were exposed and partially decomposed it’s possible that clothes moth
larva found their way onto it and are only now being noticed as they hit
adulthood. Another possibility is, if the colony isn’t sealed up, that the
larva were deposited after the bones entered the colony. Have you seen any
other clothes moth activity in the general area?
As I don’t have any real experience with de-fleshing bones,
hopefully this helps!
William Shepherd
Collections Officer
Swift Current Museum
44 Robert Street West
Swift Current, Saskatchewan
S9H 4M9
Phone: 306-778-4815
Fax: 306-778-4818
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Greetings,
These moths have erupted in my dermestid colony. Wondering what they are and
why they're there. There are only beetles and fleshed bones they are cleaning
in the colony, no fur, feathers or skin.
thanks!
Tamar
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Tamar Danufsky
Museum Curator and
Marine Wildlife Care Center Coordinator
Wildlife Department
Humboldt State University
Arcata, CA 95521
phone (707)826-4034
fax (707)826-4060
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