Re: [pestlist] beetle problem
Hi Silvia, It is kind of hard to tell from your photos - but they look like grain beetle, possibly the "confused flour beetle" Tirbolium conf usum or one of its relatives. Gretchen Anderson Conservator Science Museum of Minnesota 651-221-4764 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.smm.org - Original Message - From: "Silvia Gonzales" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: pestlist@museumpests.net Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2008 12:05:51 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central Subject: [pestlist] beetle problem Hello, We have been finding some beetles in one of our galleries. Comparing the photos we took of them with those online I suspect they are drugstore beetles. I purchased several food bait/pheromone traps aimed at drugstore beetles but haven’t caught more than two in a month. Are those traps effective or is it a sign that my bugs aren’t drugstore thus not attracted by these particular pheromones? Or they suddenly pack their stuff and left? Can anyone look at the attached images and give me a clue? Also, If you know how to deal with a potential infestation in a gallery, please let me know. Thanks, Silvia N Gonzales Collections Manager Utah Museum of Fine Arts 410 Campus Center Drive Salt Lake City, UT 84112 Ph: 801.585.97.69 Fx: 801.585.51.98 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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X-PMX-Version: x1 5.4.1.325704, Antispam-Engine: 2.6.0.325393, Antispam-Data: 2008.8.21.204615 Received: from [129.24.125.191] (account [EMAIL PROTECTED]) by theta.unm.edu (CommuniGate Pro WebUser 4.3.6) with HTTP id 25551079 for pestlist@museumpests.net; Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:01:19 -0600 From: "Cindy A Ramotnik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [pestlist] beetle problem To: pestlist@museumpests.net X-Mailer: CommuniGate Pro WebUser Interface v.4.3.6 Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:01:19 -0600 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Priority: 3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Assp-Re-Red: BOUNCE X-Assp-Whitelisted: Yes X-Assp-Envelope-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Precedence: bulk Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: pestlist@museumpests.net This is a message from the Pest Management Database List. To post to this list send it as an email to pestlist@museumpests.net To unsubscribe look at the footer of this email. ---They look like saw-toothed grain beetles to me. Cindy On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:04:38 -0400 (EDT) "Louis Sorkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is a message from the Pest Management Database >List. > To post to this list send it as an email to >pestlist@museumpests.net > To unsubscribe look at the footer of this email. > ---Pictures >are kind of fuzzy, but not drugstore beetle (wrong >family, too) & > not sure of size, but looks like Corticaria pubescens (a >latridiid). > Maybe someone else can hazard a guess. > > >> Hello, >> >> We have been finding some beetles in one of our >>galleries. Comparing >> the photos we took of them with those online I suspect >>they are >> drugstore beetles. I purchased several food >>bait/pheromone traps aimed >> at drugstore beetles but haven't caught more than two >>in a month. Are >> those traps effective or is it a sign that my bugs >>aren't drugstore thus >> not attracted by these particular pheromones? Or they >>suddenly pack >> their stuff and left? >> >> >> >> Can anyone look at the attached images and give me a >>clue? >> >> >> >> Also, If you know how to deal with a potential >>infestation in a gallery, >> please let me know. >> >> >> >> Thanks, >> >> >> >> >> >> Silvia N Gonzales >> >> Collections Manager >> >> Utah Museum of Fine Arts >> >> 410 Campus Center Drive >> >> Salt Lake City, UT 84112 >> >> Ph: 801.585.97.69 >> >> Fx: 801.585.51.98 >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > > > -- > Please consider the environment before printing this >e-mail > > > Louis N. Sorkin, B.C.E. > Entomology Section > Division of Invertebrate Zoology > American Museum of Natural History > Central Park West at 79th St. > New York, NY 10024-5192 > > phone: 212-769-5613 > fax: 212-769-5277 > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > The New York Entomological Society, Inc. > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > web: www.nyentsoc.org > Online journal from 2001 forward > www.BioOne.org > > > > - > To send an email to the list, send your msg to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe from this list send an email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] and in the body put: > "unsubscribe pestlist" > Any problems email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cindy Ramotnik U.S. Geological Survey Department of Biology MSC03 2020 1 University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001 505-277-5369 - To send an email to the list, send your msg to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe from this list send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and in the body put: "unsubscribe pestlist" Any problems email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [pestlist] beetle problem
That is definitely not a drugstore beetle which explains why the pheromone traps are not working. Drugstores have a different shape. I have been calling what you have a plaster beetle, but do not have a latin name for it. I will look forward to input from the real pros out there. Chris Del Re -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Silvia Gonzales Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2008 12:06 PM To: pestlist@museumpests.net Subject: [pestlist] beetle problem Hello, We have been finding some beetles in one of our galleries. Comparing the photos we took of them with those online I suspect they are drugstore beetles. I purchased several food bait/pheromone traps aimed at drugstore beetles but haven't caught more than two in a month. Are those traps effective or is it a sign that my bugs aren't drugstore thus not attracted by these particular pheromones? Or they suddenly pack their stuff and left? Can anyone look at the attached images and give me a clue? Also, If you know how to deal with a potential infestation in a gallery, please let me know. Thanks, Silvia N Gonzales Collections Manager Utah Museum of Fine Arts 410 Campus Center Drive Salt Lake City, UT 84112 Ph: 801.585.97.69 Fx: 801.585.51.98 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [pestlist] beetle problem
Silvia, The beetles in your trap appear to be Saw-toothed Grain beetles Orzaephilus surinamensis. These are a food pest rather than a museum pest. You will want to do a search for any dried food goods in the area that you are finding these guys. There are some trappping systems that work well for Saw-toothed beetles, but until you find the source and eliminate it, you will continue to see them. I am wondering what product you purchased aimed at drugstore beetle? I know of nothing on the market besides insect light traps that is effective at attracting the drugstore beetle Stegobium panaceum. There are currently no pheromones that work well at all. Patrick Kelley Insects Limited, Inc. In a message dated 8/21/2008 3:17:55 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, We have been finding some beetles in one of our galleries. Comparing the photos we took of them with those online I suspect they are drugstore beetles. I purchased several food bait/pheromone traps aimed at drugstore beetles but haven’t caught more than two in a month. Are those traps effective or is it a sign that my bugs aren’t drugstore thus not attracted by these particular pheromones? Or they suddenly pack their stuff and left? Can anyone look at the attached images and give me a clue? Also, If you know how to deal with a potential infestation in a gallery, please let me know. Thanks, Silvia N Gonzales Collections Manager Utah Museum of Fine Arts 410 Campus Center Drive Salt Lake City, UT 84112 Ph: 801.585.97.69 Fx: 801.585.51.98 [EMAIL PROTECTED] **It's only a deal if it's where you want to go. Find your travel deal here. (http://information.travel.aol.com/deals?ncid=aoltrv000547)
Re: [pestlist] beetle problem
This is a message from the Pest Management Database List. To post to this list send it as an email to pestlist@museumpests.net To unsubscribe look at the footer of this email. ---Pictures are kind of fuzzy, but not drugstore beetle (wrong family, too) & not sure of size, but looks like Corticaria pubescens (a latridiid). Maybe someone else can hazard a guess. > Hello, > > We have been finding some beetles in one of our galleries. Comparing > the photos we took of them with those online I suspect they are > drugstore beetles. I purchased several food bait/pheromone traps aimed > at drugstore beetles but haven't caught more than two in a month. Are > those traps effective or is it a sign that my bugs aren't drugstore thus > not attracted by these particular pheromones? Or they suddenly pack > their stuff and left? > > > > Can anyone look at the attached images and give me a clue? > > > > Also, If you know how to deal with a potential infestation in a gallery, > please let me know. > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > Silvia N Gonzales > > Collections Manager > > Utah Museum of Fine Arts > > 410 Campus Center Drive > > Salt Lake City, UT 84112 > > Ph: 801.585.97.69 > > Fx: 801.585.51.98 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > -- Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail Louis N. Sorkin, B.C.E. Entomology Section Division of Invertebrate Zoology American Museum of Natural History Central Park West at 79th St. New York, NY 10024-5192 phone: 212-769-5613 fax: 212-769-5277 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The New York Entomological Society, Inc. email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: www.nyentsoc.org Online journal from 2001 forward www.BioOne.org - To send an email to the list, send your msg to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe from this list send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and in the body put: "unsubscribe pestlist" Any problems email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [pestlist] beetle problem
This is a message from the Pest Management Database List. To post to this list send it as an email to pestlist@museumpests.net To unsubscribe look at the footer of this email. ---Actually the word plaster beetle refers to other latridiid beetles, minute brown scavenger beetles, usually in the subfamily Latridiinae, although I'm sure that term has been used for many latridiid and related beetles associated with dampness and mold growth. You'll note that Latridiidae is used instead of Lathridiidae, it's not a misspelling on my part. Not a saw-toothed grain beetle, a silvaniid. > That is definitely not a drugstore beetle which explains why the pheromone > traps are not working. Drugstores have a different shape. I have been > calling what you have a plaster beetle, but do not have a latin name for > it. I will look forward to input from the real pros out there. Chris Del > Re > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Silvia Gonzales > Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2008 12:06 PM > To: pestlist@museumpests.net > Subject: [pestlist] beetle problem > > > > Hello, > > We have been finding some beetles in one of our galleries. Comparing the > photos we took of them with those online I suspect they are drugstore > beetles. I purchased several food bait/pheromone traps aimed at drugstore > beetles but haven't caught more than two in a month. Are those traps > effective or is it a sign that my bugs aren't drugstore thus not attracted > by these particular pheromones? Or they suddenly pack their stuff and > left? > > > > Can anyone look at the attached images and give me a clue? > > > > Also, If you know how to deal with a potential infestation in a gallery, > please let me know. > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > Silvia N Gonzales > > Collections Manager > > Utah Museum of Fine Arts > > 410 Campus Center Drive > > Salt Lake City, UT 84112 > > Ph: 801.585.97.69 > > Fx: 801.585.51.98 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > -- Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail Louis N. Sorkin, B.C.E. Entomology Section Division of Invertebrate Zoology American Museum of Natural History Central Park West at 79th St. New York, NY 10024-5192 phone: 212-769-5613 fax: 212-769-5277 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The New York Entomological Society, Inc. email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: www.nyentsoc.org Online journal from 2001 forward www.BioOne.org - To send an email to the list, send your msg to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe from this list send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and in the body put: "unsubscribe pestlist" Any problems email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [pestlist] beetle problem
I would agree with Louis. It sort of looks like a minute brown scavenger. They feed on fungus and are often found in new structures, near wood with a high moisture content. I'd look for moisture in your galleries--maybe from a new exhibit component? Good luck! Rebecca Rebecca Newberry Conservation Assistant Conservation Department Science Museum of Minnesota 120 W. Kellogg Bl. St. Paul, MN 55102 651 265-9841 www.smm.org - Original Message - From: "Louis Sorkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: pestlist@museumpests.net Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2008 2:04:38 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central Subject: Re: [pestlist] beetle problem This is a message from the Pest Management Database List. To post to this list send it as an email to pestlist@museumpests.net To unsubscribe look at the footer of this email. ---Pictures are kind of fuzzy, but not drugstore beetle (wrong family, too) & not sure of size, but looks like Corticaria pubescens (a latridiid). Maybe someone else can hazard a guess. > Hello, > > We have been finding some beetles in one of our galleries. Comparing > the photos we took of them with those online I suspect they are > drugstore beetles. I purchased several food bait/pheromone traps aimed > at drugstore beetles but haven't caught more than two in a month. Are > those traps effective or is it a sign that my bugs aren't drugstore thus > not attracted by these particular pheromones? Or they suddenly pack > their stuff and left? > > > > Can anyone look at the attached images and give me a clue? > > > > Also, If you know how to deal with a potential infestation in a gallery, > please let me know. > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > Silvia N Gonzales > > Collections Manager > > Utah Museum of Fine Arts > > 410 Campus Center Drive > > Salt Lake City, UT 84112 > > Ph: 801.585.97.69 > > Fx: 801.585.51.98 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > -- Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail Louis N. Sorkin, B.C.E. Entomology Section Division of Invertebrate Zoology American Museum of Natural History Central Park West at 79th St. New York, NY 10024-5192 phone: 212-769-5613 fax: 212-769-5277 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The New York Entomological Society, Inc. email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: www.nyentsoc.org Online journal from 2001 forward www.BioOne.org - To send an email to the list, send your msg to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe from this list send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and in the body put: "unsubscribe pestlist" Any problems email [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- BEGIN-ANTISPAM-VOTING-LINKS -- Teach CanIt if this mail (ID 5163645) is spam: Spam: https://canit.smm.org/canit/b.php?i=5163645&m=62c4f118a241&c=s Not spam: https://canit.smm.org/canit/b.php?i=5163645&m=62c4f118a241&c=n Forget vote: https://canit.smm.org/canit/b.php?i=5163645&m=62c4f118a241&c=f -- END-ANTISPAM-VOTING-LINKS
[pestlist] Handling Containers for Contaminated Study Skins
This inquiry is rather tangentially related to the question of pests but since many natural history collection staff are on the list, I think it is a good place to ask it. At the University of Alberta we have a small wildlife collection that includes mounted vertebrate specimens and study skins that date from the early to late 20th century. The collection is almost exclusively and regularly used for undergraduate teaching. Due to an upcoming move of the collection, we are just beginning to grapple with issues related to the probable use of arsenic to prepare many specimens in the collection. To date nothing has been tested but we are looking into that at present and we are consulting with our Environmental Health and Safety department. My question concerns the use of containers for the smaller study skins as a means of protecting students from the risks due to the presence of arsenic on the skins. I have been reading through available literature on suggested handling techniques for such specimens. These focus on protective wear such as gloves, respirators, lab coats, etc. as well as methods for disposing and cleaning. Is it possible to provide students with sufficient protection from arsenic by enclosing the specimens in transparent plastic tubes of the kind that are sometimes used in storage? Are there specific products available that might be recommended? Would full protective gear still be required even with such enclosures? Thanks for your thoughts. Irene Karsten Museum Conservator Museums and Collections Services Ring House 1 University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta Canada T6G 2E1 Tel: (780) 492-0776 Fax: (780) 492-6185
RE: [pestlist] beetle problem
Hi Silvia I am quite certain thet these beetles are one of the Corticaria species, belonging to the beetle family of Lathridiidae. Their common name is Minute mould beetles. The adults and their larvae are feeding on damp, mouldy commodities. They are very common not only in on farm stored products but also in domestic situations. Since they are not pests of any commodity including paper and artefacts there are no information on them in any of the museum collection management and museum pest book I have. As far as I know there is no pheromone traps exist for these critters. The best thing you can do is a very thorough inspection of all the gallery's associated rooms. I suspect there might be some leaky water pipe or sewer pipe that keeps the chipboard furniture and/or vanity unit wet. It may well be a leaking aircondition unit dripping on the back of some old wooden cupboard. Sometimes wooden frame windows breeding mould where the water runs down inside. There are numerous other places where you might find mould growing in your building. Once you rectified the problem they will disappear . It is quite certain that as long as there is any mould in the building it will attract more Lathridiid beetles. These beetles have long life, good runners and active flyers. So if there is a breeding colony of them in the building you will find them anywhere. Once they die their body will feed more significant pests. I hope this helps. Best regards Andras Szito Curator/Entomologist Department of Agriculture and Food Western Australia Biosecurity & Research Division Plant Biosecurity Branch Entomology Unit 3 Baron-Hay Court, SOUTH PERTH, WA 6151 Tel: (+61 8) 9368 3571, (+61 8) 9368 3965 Fax: (+61 8) 9368 3223, (+61 8) 9474 2840 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Silvia Gonzales Sent: Friday, 22 August 2008 1:06 AM To: pestlist@museumpests.net Subject: [pestlist] beetle problem Hello, We have been finding some beetles in one of our galleries. Comparing the photos we took of them with those online I suspect they are drugstore beetles. I purchased several food bait/pheromone traps aimed at drugstore beetles but haven't caught more than two in a month. Are those traps effective or is it a sign that my bugs aren't drugstore thus not attracted by these particular pheromones? Or they suddenly pack their stuff and left? Can anyone look at the attached images and give me a clue? Also, If you know how to deal with a potential infestation in a gallery, please let me know. Thanks, Silvia N Gonzales Collections Manager Utah Museum of Fine Arts 410 Campus Center Drive Salt Lake City, UT 84112 Ph: 801.585.97.69 Fx: 801.585.51.98 [EMAIL PROTECTED] This e-mail and files transmitted with it are privileged and confidential information intended for the use of the addressee. The confidentiality and/or privilege in this e-mail is not waived, lost or destroyed if it has been transmitted to you in error. If you received this e-mail in error you must (a) not disseminate, copy or take any action in reliance on it; (b) please notify the Department of Agriculture and Food, WA immediately by return e-mail to the sender; (c) please delete the original e-mail. This email has been successfully scanned by McAfee Anti-Virus software. Department of Agriculture and Food WA
